DJDouglas Jerrold

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Douglas Jerrold

Life dates: 1803 AD — 1857 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1830 AD

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

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02c. 1830 AD

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

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03c. 1830 AD

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

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04c. 1830 AD

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man's usual fate—he was lost upon the coral reefs.

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05c. 1830 AD

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

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06c. 1830 AD

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

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07c. 1830 AD

To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern.

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08c. 1830 AD

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true, but there is the slime.

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09c. 1830 AD

Soldiers looked at as they ought to be: they are to the world as poppies to corn fields.

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10c. 1830 AD

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows! What poor, defenseless creatures they would be!

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11c. 1830 AD

"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.

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12c. 1830 AD

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

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13c. 1830 AD

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

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14c. 1830 AD

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

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15c. 1830 AD

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

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16c. 1830 AD

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

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17c. 1830 AD

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

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18c. 1830 AD

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

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19c. 1830 AD

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!

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20c. 1830 AD

Quality not quantity is my measure.

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21c. 1830 AD

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

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22c. 1830 AD

If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

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23c. 1830 AD

Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.

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24c. 1830 AD

Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

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