Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)

Douglas William Jerrold (1803–57) was an English dramatist, journalist, and humorist whose work appeared in prominent journals of his time. None of his plays has survived, even though he had contemporaneous success as a playwright.

Born in London, Jerrold joined the navy as a midshipman in 1813, apprenticed with a printer, became a dramatic author of the Surrey Theatre, and then worked as a compositor on the Sunday Monitor 1819 before becoming its drama critic.

Jerrold achieved success in the theatre with Black-Eyed Susan (1829,) a nautical melodrama that draws on the patriotic tar (sailor) while critiquing authoritarianism in the British Navy.

Jerrold also edited the Illuminated Magazine 1843–44, Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine 1845–48, Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper 1846–48 and from 1852 Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper.

From 1841, Jerrold was one of the contributors to the newly launched humorous journal Punch, writing under the pseudonym ‘Q.’ He mastered an exclusive brand of Victorian humor in a series of articles called “Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures” (1845) for Punch.

A prolific journalist, Jerrold wrote much that is bitter and personal, in sharp contrast to the cheerfulness of his “Curtain Lectures,” which appeared in book form (1846) and regularly reprinted. His comedies, The Bride of Ludgate (1831,) Time Works Wonders (1845,) and The Catspaw (1850,) were less successful. William Makepeace Thackeray illustrated Jerrold’s studies of Men of Character (1838.)

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We love peace, but not peace at any price.—There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive of his body.—Chains are worse than bayonets.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Peace

Conscience, though ever so small a worm while we live, grows suddenly into a serpent on our deathbed.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Conscience

Love’s like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Love

The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Character

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Weddings, Marriage

There is a sanctity in suffering when meekly born. Our 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 rod, it changes to a snake.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Trials

It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Conceit

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Reputation

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 William Jerrold
Topics: Kindness

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.
—Douglas William Jerrold

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Truth

In the intercourse of the world people should not take words as so much genuine coin of standard metal, but merely as counters that people play with.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Language

The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Man, Intelligence

Never have a friend that’s poorer than yourself.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Friendship

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: War

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn’t make it.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Defense, Lawyers

A duellist is only a Cain in high life.
—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

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Marriage

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
Topics: Slander

Honest bread is very well, it’s butter that makes the temptation.
—Douglas William Jerrold

Some people’s hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear ’em rattle as they walk.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Heart

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Revolution

The sharp employ the sharp.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Work

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Fortune

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Charity

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Love

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Nation, Nationality, Nations, Nationalism

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Prayer

What would women do if they could not cry?—What poor, defenceless creatures they would be.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Tears

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