Quotes by Douglas Jerrold

• A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
• A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
• Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
• Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
• Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
• Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
• Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
• The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
• The sharp employ the sharp.
• The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
• There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
• We love peace, but not peace at any price.
• In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
• Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.