Douglas William Jerrold
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.Collection: Heart
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.Collection: Ink
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.Collection: Witty
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Morning
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.Collection: Literature
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.Collection: Jewels
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.Collection: Love
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.Collection: Men
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.Collection: Luck
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.Collection: Voting
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.Collection: Men
Nature designed us to be of good cheer.Collection: Cheer
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.Collection: Growth
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.Collection: Sky
Malice blunts the point of wit.Collection: Wit
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.Collection: Water
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.Collection: Men
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!Collection: Children
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.Collection: Baby
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Snakes
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.Collection: Crime
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.Collection: Medicine
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Beautiful
We are all slaves to the shining metal.Collection: Money
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!Collection: Would Be
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.Collection: Curiosity
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.Collection: People