"Being poor is a mere trifle. It is……" — Jerome K. Jerome

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my…
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they…
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we…
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…
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a…
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state,…
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make…
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…
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
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