"Conceit is the finest armour a man can…" — Jerome K. Jerome
"Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear."
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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they…
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we…
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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
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Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be…
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a…
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state,…
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make…
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings…
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…
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More Armour Quotes
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
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I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a…
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I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just…
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when…
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The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless,…
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There is no armour against fate.
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And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour,
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I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make…
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When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you…
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Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.
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If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour,…
— Don King
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Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those…
— Glenda Millard
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