Jerome K. Jerome Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Famous Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
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“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
Work Quotes
Source: Three Men in a Boat (ch. XV)
“Think of the man who first tried German sausage.”
Eating Quotes
Source: Three Men in a Boat (ch. XIV)
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."”
Babies Quotes
“A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.”
Cats Quotes
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our follies that we are one.”
Fallibility Quotes
“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
Idleness Quotes
“Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God”
Nations Quotes
“I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.”
Sadness Quotes
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
Inspirational Quotes
“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.".”
Children / youth Quotes
“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
Home Quotes
“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.”
Perspective Quotes
“I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Work Quotes