“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
Douglas Jerrold“It takes all sorts of people to make a world.”
Douglas Jerrold“Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.”
Douglas Jerrold“Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
Douglas Jerrold“If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.”
Douglas Jerrold“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
Douglas Jerrold“Quality not quantity is my measure.”
Douglas Jerrold“A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!”
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.”
Douglas Jerrold“Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
Douglas Jerrold“Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.”
Douglas Jerrold