Quotes by Douglas Jerrold

“Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader”

“All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself”

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country”

“Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!”

“The surest way to hit a womans heart is to take aim kneeling.”

“We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.”

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

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.”

“Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they dont go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it”

“Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles”

“If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest”

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

“Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth”

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

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

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

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

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

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time its ten to one if they hang long together.