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
work sleep failing
Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.
rivers hands sailing
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season..
love way done
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
love light fire
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
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.
respect too-much drag
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
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.
funny humorous school
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
ambition vanity
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
love memories pain
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
wine men sight
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.
heaven journalism not-sure
"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"
health
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.