102 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.