Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— 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

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

The sharp employ the sharp.

— Douglas William Jerrold