Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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
Picturesque
Ragged
Gypsy
Literature
Littles
Little
Like
More quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true but there is the slime.
Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
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
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
In this world truth can wait she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
Douglas William Jerrold
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Douglas William Jerrold
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas William Jerrold
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
Douglas William Jerrold
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Douglas William Jerrold
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Douglas William Jerrold
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
Douglas William Jerrold
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Douglas William Jerrold
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
Douglas William Jerrold
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
Douglas William Jerrold
