Quotes About Jerome K. Jerome

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip." Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome

Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.

they cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.

But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house — out of place and in the way.

There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford.  Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second, and evidently thought he had got to heaven.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

A Surreyside Saturday-night audience are generally inclined to be cheerful, and, if the fun on the stage doesn't satisfy them, they rely on their own resources.

I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing of a pigeon. But that was in the afternoon. My only longing now was for a gun. Three

Has he been snatched up to heaven?" I queried. "They'd hardly have taken the pie too," said George.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.