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 Copy Share Image
“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Young ladies take their notions of our sex from the novels written by their own, and compared with the monstrosities that masquerade… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“It would not be a good place for the heroine of a modern novel to stay at. The heroine of a modern… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“There was no ground-floor — its ground-floor belonged to a house in the next court, and the front door opened direct upon a flight… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
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