Top 70 Douglas William Jerrold Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Quality, not quantity, is my measure.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

2. “It takes all sorts of people to make a world.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

3. “Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

4. “After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

5. “Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

7. “A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman’s softness.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

8. “He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

9. “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

10. “Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

11. “Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason – the lawyers didn’t make it.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

12. “The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

13. “Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

14. “Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

15. “Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

16. “The sharp employ the sharp.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

17. “Love the sea? I dote upon it – from the beach.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

18. “We love peace, but not peace at any price.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

19. “I would like to have a second chance at my first love.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

20. “There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn’t drive it into their heads with a hammer.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

21. “Humor is the harmony of the heart.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

23. “If slander be a snake, it is a winged one – it flies as well as creeps.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

24. “Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

25. “We are all slaves to the shining metal.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

26. “The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

27. “The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

28. “The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

29. “If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

30. “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!”

— Douglas William Jerrold

31. “As for the brandy, “nothing extenuate”; and the water, put nought in in malice.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

32. “A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ‘ancient institution’ the old one.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

33. “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.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

34. “Malice blunts the point of wit.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

35. “Troubles are like babies – they only grow by nursing.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

36. “Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

37. “There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

38. “In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

39. “Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

40. “Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

41. “Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

42. “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.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

43. “A piece of simple goodness – a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature – a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

44. “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.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

45. “Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

46. “There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

47. “Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

48. “Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

50. “Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.”

— Douglas William Jerrold