Quotes from Douglas William Jerrold

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

The sharp employ the sharp.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.