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

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

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

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

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

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

A duellist is only a Cain in high life.
Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

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

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: Intelligence, Man

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

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

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

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one. It flies as well as creeps.
Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Slander

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

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

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Drunkenness

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

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Marriage

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

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

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

Many a man who now lacks shoe-leather would wear golden spurs if knighthood were the reward of worth.
Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Worth

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

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

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

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