Quotes from Douglas William Jerrold


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    There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

    War | Peace | Body


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

    Heart | Woman | Aim


    The sharp employ the sharp.

    Leadership | Sharp | Employ


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

    Life | Love | Late


    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.

    Passion | Rain | Duck


    The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

    Sports | Athletic | Mastered


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

    Happiness | Strangers | Grows


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

    Marriage | Wine | Glass


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

    Luck | Meet | Run


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

    Religion | Heart | Knees


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

    Truth | Wait


    We love peace, but not peace at any price.

    Peace | Love | Price


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

    Time | Together | Hang


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

    Best | Sea | France


       

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