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Douglas William Jerrold
English
Dramatist
About the author
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Heart
#Religion
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,
English
Dramatist
#Time
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Strangers
#Happiness
#Gardens
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,
English
Dramatist
#Man
#Passion
#Rain
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Life
#Love
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Marriage
#Wine
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Sea
#EnglFrance
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Heart
#Woman
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#War
#Peace
#Man
#Living
#Body
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#Love
#Peace
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#World
#Truth
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold,
English
Dramatist
#People
#Luck