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
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
– Douglas William Jerrold
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
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
– Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
– Douglas William Jerrold
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
– Douglas William Jerrold
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
– Douglas William Jerrold
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
– Douglas William Jerrold
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
– Douglas William Jerrold
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
– Douglas William Jerrold
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.
– Douglas William Jerrold
Dress it as we may... huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
– Douglas William Jerrold
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.