102 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

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

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

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.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.