Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

About Jerome K. Jerome:

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
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It always has been and always will be the same. The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generatio...

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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 cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "th...

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

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

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There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it d...

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The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and t...

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

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He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then we all told each other that we thought it would be a fine day to-morrow; and George said the crops seemed to be coming up nicely.

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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

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

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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!" After beefsteak and porter...

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I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one recieves: 'Press your tonsils ...

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With me, it was my liver that was out of order. […] I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind." What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have bee...

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Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody,...

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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

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It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thous...

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

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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.

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After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread you...

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Author Bio

  • NameJerome K. Jerome
  • DescriptionEnglish humoroist
  • AliasesJerome Klapka Jerome
  • BornMay 2, 1859
  • DiedJune 14, 1927
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Humorist; Playwright; Autobiographer