What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas William Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas William Jerrold
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. - Douglas William Jerrold
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost. - Douglas William Jerrold
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
It takes all sorts of people to make a world. - Douglas William Jerrold
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous. - Douglas William Jerrold
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Quality, not quantity, is my measure. - Douglas William Jerrold
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. - Douglas William Jerrold
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair. - Douglas William Jerrold
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. - Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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