Quotes by Jerrold, Douglas William

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

Jerrold, Douglas William on exercise   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on fortune   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on happiness   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on art
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"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."

Jerrold, Douglas William on kindness   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on love   

"Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it."

Jerrold, Douglas William on luck   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on marriage   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on nations   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on peace   

"Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets."

Jerrold, Douglas William on peace   

"He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks."

Jerrold, Douglas William on philanthropists   

"Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment."

Jerrold, Douglas William on pleasure   

"Religion is in the heart, not in the knees."

Jerrold, Douglas William on prayer
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"Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader."

Jerrold, Douglas William on reason   

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

Jerrold, Douglas William on truth   

"The sharp employ the sharp."

Jerrold, Douglas William on work