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Bread
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Honest bread is very well, it's butter that makes the temptation.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Charity
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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
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Exercise
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Fortune
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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
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Gardens
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-Douglas William Jerrold, A Land of Plenty
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Happiness
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Heart
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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Kindness
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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
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Love
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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Luck
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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Marriage
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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Peace
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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
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Pleasure
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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
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Prayer
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Revolution
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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Truth
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Work
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The sharp employ the sharp.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Books by and about Douglas William Jerrold