Douglas William Jerrold
12 quotations
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
The sharp employ the sharp.