278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

It’s really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. It wants the whole boat to itself. It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.

No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don’t you won’t get any.

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.