Douglas Jerrold Quotations

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself

Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks

What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be

That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment

Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass.

Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it

If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment

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

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest

The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell