Douglas Jerrold Quotes (59 Quotes)

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

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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

The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.

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

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.

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

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

The nobleman of the garden.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.

I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity but not peace at any price.

Fear not, then, thou child infirm There 's no god dare wrong a worm.

What potent blood hath modest May.

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.

Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.

A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.

He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.

Readers are of two sorts one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

The life of the husbandman,a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

And every man, in love or pride, Of his fate is never wide.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

A blessed companion is a book,a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.

Not peace at any price Chains are worse than bayonets.

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

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'

Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all And where it cometh, all things are And it cometh everywhere.

The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill.

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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

And with Csar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, 'All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.'

Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.

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