Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
JEROME K. JEROME, "On Vanity and Vanities," Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.
JEROME K. JEROME, "Silhouettes"
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
JEROME K. JEROME, "Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
JEROME K. JEROME, "A Man of Habit"
A good woman’s arms round a man’s neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
JEROME K. JEROME, "A Charming Woman"
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
JEROME K. JEROME, "Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"
A boy’s muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
JEROME K. JEROME, "The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway"
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME, Three Men in a Boat
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
JEROME K. JEROME, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
JEROME K. JEROME, "The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway"
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