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Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome QUOTES

41 " there’s a difference between marrying and being married. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

42 " As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does the former he is more or less in love, and love to John Ingerfield is an unknown emotion. Her beauty, her charm, her social tact — even while he makes use of them for his own purposes, he despises as the weapons of a weak nature. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

43 " No; it is not well to rule one’s self by theories. We think, when we are very young, that theories, or “philosophies” as we term them, are guiding lights, held out by Wisdom over the pathway of life; we learn, as we grow older, that, too often, they are mere will-o’-the-wisps, hovering over dismal swamps where dead men’s bones lie rotting. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

44 " I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you’ve got to pay for it. Where’s the fun in that? "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

45 " Mrs. Postwhistle’s theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

46 " A DEPUTATION It consists of two men and three women. Superior people would call them Cranks. But Cranks have been of some service to the world, and the use of superior people is still to be discovered. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

47 " Do you not remember me?” whispered the Dream. “We had long talks together. The morning and the noonday pass. The evening still is ours. The twilight also brings its promise. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

48 " What does it matter what any of us says about anything? Nobody takes much notice of it, luckily for everybody. This reflection must be of great comfort to editors and critics. A conscientious man who really felt that his words would carry weight and influence with them would be almost afraid to speak at all. It is the man who knows that it will not make an ounce of difference to anyone what he says, that can grow eloquent and vehement and positive. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

49 " A farmer has a way of standing on one leg and looking at a thing that isn’t there. It sounds simple, but there is knack in it. The farmer is not surprised it is not there. He never expected it to be there. It is one of those things that ought to be, and is not. The farmer’s life is full of such. Suffering reduced to a science is what the farmer stands for. All his life he is the good man struggling against adversity. Nothing "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome

50 " It could be done with a little good will all round,” he continued, “and nine men out of every ten would be the better off. But they won’t even let you explain. Their newspapers shout you down. It’s such a damned fine world for the few: never mind the many. "

― Jerome K. Jerome , Works of Jerome Klapka Jerome