Jerome K. Jerome

“who weighs about twelve stone. ”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

— Jerome K. Jerome

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

— Jerome K. Jerome

“War still was the stern school where men learnt virtue, duty, forgetfulness of self, faithfulness unto death.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

— Jerome K. Jerome

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is…

— Jerome K. Jerome

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“found his conversation a strange mixture of self-laudation, showing through a flimsy veil of self-disparagement, and of satisfaction at the conviction that…

— Jerome K. Jerome

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him.…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very…

— Jerome K. Jerome

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he’d…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“And who would not risk its terrors to gain its raptures? Ah, what raptures they were! The mere recollection thrills you. How…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Must we believe those who tell us that a hand foul with the filth of a shameful life is the only one…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two…

— 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

“Kako ljudi pretrpavaju svoj bijedni brodić do vrha jarbola skupocjenom odjećom i velikim kućama, nepotrebnom poslugom i gomilom nazoviprijatelja, kojima nimalo nije…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“[…] the lady, her eye catching sight of an advertisement of somebody’s cocoa, said ‘Shocking!’ and turned the other way. Really, there…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was the ghost…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

— Jerome K. Jerome

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

— Jerome K. Jerome

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

— Jerome K. Jerome