Quote

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Douglas William Jerrold

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Quantity
Measure
Quality

More quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

Image
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
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
Image
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
Image
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
In this world truth can wait she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Image
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