Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold - Page 2

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Fire
Memories
Strong
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Defense
Law
Self
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Steel
Wit
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Love
Wedding
Gowns
World
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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Fancy
Modesty
Nice
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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 / Dramatist
Time
Educational
Long
Shirts
Ten
Time Together Long
Fortunes
Hang
No Time
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Cry
Poor
Would Be
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I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Funeral
Gambling
Sound
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Peace
Men
War
Bayonets
Destructive
Manhood
War Peace Man
Material
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Belief
Jewels
Made
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Long
Writing
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Credit
Pay
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Ancient
Looks
Moon
Institution
Old One
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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 / Dramatist
Wise
Time
Vote
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Knaves
Reputation
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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Debt
Two
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Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Advice
Authorship
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Beautiful
Children
Noise
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O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Break Out
Curiosity
Ears
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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.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Life
Benevolent
Merciful
Mistaken
Passion
Rain
Umbrella
Duck
Held
Shower
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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Names
Slime
Slugs
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Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Friendship
Golden
Golden Rule
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There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Appreciate
Hammers
People
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If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Earthquakes
Events
Rubbish
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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 / Dramatist
Jobs
Work
People
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
May
Snakes
Thorns
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A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Men
Morning
World
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A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Blessed
Book
Heart
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There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Religion
Good Man
Holy
People
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What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
War
Gold
Song
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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.
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Beautiful
Heart
Simple
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A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!
Douglas William Jerrold / Dramatist
Childhood
Children
Light
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