K. Jerome Quotes (12 Quotes)

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.

Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God.

Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her. It makes us sad to be with her then she does not seem to know us or to care for us.

He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy.

Mere bald fabrication is useless the veriest tyro fisherman can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing but this is a mistake.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas--something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.