Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jeromewas an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 May 1859
bulls benefits institutions
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
humorous sadness england
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
one-direction balance gains
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
revenge men people
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
love-is weakness natural
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
mistake lying people
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 blushing; but this is a mistake.
weed nature marijuana
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
suicide morning views
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer.
humorous lunch views
Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
beauty girl reading
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.
wine glasses fancy
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
morning beer night
1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.
ambition vanity
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
health
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.