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Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Douglas William Jerrold Biography

Nationality: English
Type: Dramatist

Born: January 3, 1803
Death: June 8, 1857

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #1

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Peace , War , Living

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #2

The sharp employ the sharp.

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Sharp, Employ

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #3

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Ever, Athletic, Mastered

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #4

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Luck, Run, Meet

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #5

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Religion , Heart, Knees

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #6

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Life , Love , Late

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #7

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Truth , Wait, She

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #8

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

Tags: Time , Long, Together

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #9

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Best , Between, Sea

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #10

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Marriage , Wine, Until

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #11

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

Tags: Rain, Passion, Duck

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #12

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Love , Peace , Price

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #13

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Heart, Woman, Aim

Douglas William Jerrold Quotes #14

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

Douglas William Jerrold

Tags: Happiness , Strangers, Grows