Quotes By Douglas William Jerrold

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

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

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

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

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

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

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

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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

The sharp employ the sharp.

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

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

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

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.