102 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

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

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

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

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!