278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.

Only those who have worn the crown of suffering can look upon that wondrous light; and they, when they return, may not speak of it, or tell the mystery they know. Once.

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don’t stuff your head with things you don’t understand.

The more the other party thinks he’s having his way, the easier always to get your own.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man’s life – the priceless moments that will never come back to him again – being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

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.

Foolish people... When I say foolish people in this contemptuous way, I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there’s one person I do despise more than another, it’s the man who doesn’t think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.

I don’t understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.