(26 quotes found)
“I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family”
Douglas Jerrold
“Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader”
“The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.”
“What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be”
“We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.”
“A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it”
“Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles”
“If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest”
