Quotes from Douglas Jerrold

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be.