278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of – but we never love again.

And when they reached St. Albans, there would be that wretched couple, kissing under the Abbey walls. Then these folks would go and be pirates until the marriage was over.

Noi eravamo come i cavalieri dell’antica leggenda, che veleggiavano lungo un mistico lago verso l’ignoto regno del crepuscolo, verso la sconfinata terra del tramonto. Ma non arrivammo nella terra del tramonto, andammo a finire contro il barchino da pesca sul quale stavano pescando i tre vecchi.

A good woman’s arms round a man’s neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

She rode a bicycle. It was unwomanly, then, to ride a bicycle. There were so many things, in those days, that were unwomanly to do. It must have been quite difficult to be a woman, and remain so day after day.

I don’t know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Cultivate,” I said, “a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.