102 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

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.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

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