Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Luck, Mere Luck May Make Even Madness Wisdom.

That Man Is Thought A Dangerous Knave, Or Zealot Plotting Crime, Who For Advancement Of His Kind Is Wiser Than His Time.

Malice Blunts The Point Of Wit.

The Sharp Employ The Sharp.

He Is One Of Those Wise Philanthropists Who, In A Time Of Famine, Would Vote For Nothing But A Supply Of Toothpicks.

A Coquette Is Like A Recruiting Sergeant, Always On The Lookout For Fresh Victims.

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.

That Questionable Superfluity Small Beer.

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!

Nature Designed Us To Be Of Good Cheer.

Nothing Is So Beneficial To A Young Author As The Advice Of A Man Whose Judgment Stands Constitutionally At The Freezing-point.

Some People Are So Fond Of Ill Luck That They Run Halfway To Meet It.