Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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• I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young…
• The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the…
• Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
• Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.
• What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
• Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious…
• When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure…
• A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear…
• Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when…
• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor…
• I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
• A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without…
• Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
• Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
• It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work,…
• Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

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