Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
1803–1857 England
Douglas William Jerrold (January 3, 1803 – June 8, 1857) was an English dramatist and writer.
Also known as: Douglas Jerrold, Jerrold, Douglas William
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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.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one—it flies as well as creeps.
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.
To the true teacher, time's hour-glass should still run gold-dust.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
That questionable superfluity—small beer.
A piece of simple goodness—a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature—a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
We love peace as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets.