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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O, glorious laughter! thou man-loving spirit, that for a time doth take the burden from the weary back, that doth lay salve to the weary feet, bruised and cut by flints and shards.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Laughter

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

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Gardens, Gardening

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

He kissed her and promised. Such beautiful lips! Man’s usual fate—he was lost upon the coral reefs.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Kisses

How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Age

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

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Letters

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

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
—Douglas William Jerrold

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. If I were a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a good deal of enjoyment.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Pleasure

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
—Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

The last word is the most dangerous of infernal machines, and the husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Family, Words, 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

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

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 takes all sorts of people to make a world.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: World

The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Peace

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