Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Douglas William Jerrold
Age: 54 †
Born: 1803
Born: January 1
Died: 1857
Died: January 1
Author
Dramatist
Writer
London
England
Whitefeather
Barabbas
Doulgas Jerrold
Like
Properly
Judged
Glass
Glasses
Wine
Marriage
Second
Funny
More quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Douglas William Jerrold
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Douglas William Jerrold
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
Douglas William Jerrold
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Douglas William Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
Douglas William Jerrold
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Douglas William Jerrold
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
Douglas William Jerrold
In this world truth can wait she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
Douglas William Jerrold
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Douglas William Jerrold
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas William Jerrold
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
Douglas William Jerrold
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
Douglas William Jerrold
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Douglas William Jerrold
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Douglas William Jerrold
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Douglas William Jerrold
