Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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
Kind
Intemperance
Epitome
Misery
Crime
Cause
Causes
Every
More quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Douglas William Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
Douglas William Jerrold
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet 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
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
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
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Douglas William Jerrold
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Douglas William Jerrold
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
Douglas William Jerrold
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Douglas William Jerrold
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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
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
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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
In this world truth can wait she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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
