Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

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

Happiness, Strangers, Grows

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

Heart, Woman, Aim

We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Douglas William Jerrold

Love, Peace, Price

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.
Douglas William Jerrold

Rain, Passion, Duck

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

Marriage, Wine, Until

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

Best, Between, Sea

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

Time, Long, Together

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

Truth, Wait, She

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

Life, Love, Late

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold

Religion, Heart, Knees

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

Luck, Run, Meet

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold

Athletic, Mastered

The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold

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

Peace, War, Living

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 3, 1803

Died: June 8, 1857

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