Jerome K. Jerome

A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Throw the lumber over, man!”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

— Jerome K. Jerome

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“There is nothing more remarkable in human sociology than our attitude towards the institution of marriage.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Idling has always been my strong point. I take no credit to myself in the matter-it is a gift.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I can’t say I altogether blame the man (which is doubtless a great relief to his mind).”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

— Jerome K. Jerome

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“there’s a difference between marrying and being married.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. ”

— Jerome K. Jerome

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I do like cats. They are so unconsciously amusing. There is such a comic dignity about them, such a "How dare you!"…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the whole world with everybody and everything in it, was…

— Jerome K. Jerome

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Do you not remember me?” whispered the Dream. “We had long talks together. The morning and the noonday pass. The evening still…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear.  We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“MR. TRAVERS [jumping up]. Oh, I do wish you women wouldn’t discuss the matter in that horribly business-like way. One would think…

— Jerome K. Jerome

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“My mladíci, dokud si nevsuneme ruce do kapes, se zpravidla necítíme ve své kůži. Jsme rozpačití a podráždění. Připadáme si, jak by…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Now I happen to possess the bump of locality. It is not a virtue; I make no boast of it. It is…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Wallingford, six miles above Streatley, is a very ancient town, and has been an active centre for the making of English history. …

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I opened the bag and packed the boots in; and then, just as I was going to close it, a horrible idea…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Yet there is no gainsaying but that it must have been somewhat sweeter in that dewy morning of creation, when it was…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“…I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don’t…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of…

— Jerome K. Jerome