Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and resp...

A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow ...

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. W...

It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at ...

Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures o...

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It...

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

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

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up...

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

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in ...

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being s...

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can ...

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there ...

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life brin...

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringin...

And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sor...

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

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

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. I...

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea...

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-br...

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop ...

He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate...

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it us...

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is underst...

If he didn`t want his opinion,why did he ask for it?

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

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

He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday...

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

When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wast...

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

George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had go...

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, m...

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we can...

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the...

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had...

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the mis...

You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. ...

I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the...

Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a s...

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has g...

Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside,” is a safe rule fo...

Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort...

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good li...

In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nine...

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

As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.

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

I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the kn...

It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a ...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that Go...

Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips a...

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmospher...

I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, an...

I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pup...