278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.