102 Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.