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Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.”

51. “O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!”

52. “What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.”

53. “Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.”

54. “Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Man owes two solemn debts – one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.”

55. “Man owes two solemn debts – one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.”

56. “The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.”

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.”

58. “Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.”

59. “A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “That questionable superfluity small beer.”

60. “That questionable superfluity small beer.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.”

61. “Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.”

62. “That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.”

63. “I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.”

64. “Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Nature designed us to be of good cheer.”

65. “Nature designed us to be of good cheer.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.”

66. “Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Jewels! It’s my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.”

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.”

68. “Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet’s wand, it changes to a snake.”

69. “Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet’s wand, it changes to a snake.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.”

70. “Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.”

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold Quote: “Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.”

73. “Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.”

— Douglas William Jerrold

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