Douglas William Jerrold Men Quotations

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.