Douglas Jerrold Quotes

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Religion's in the heart, not in the knee. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knee.
— Douglas Jerrold The Devil’s Ducat: Or, the Gift of Mammon

religion

Troubles are like babies, and grow with nursing. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Troubles are like babies, and grow with nursing.
— Douglas Jerrold Appletons’ Journal

trouble

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
— Douglas Jerrold Specimens of Douglas Jerrold’s Wit

kneeling

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
— Douglas Jerrold
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.

witty greed

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas Jerrold
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
— Douglas Jerrold The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold

earth

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 quote.
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

conservatives

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
— Douglas Jerrold

kindness

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
— Douglas Jerrold

love