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Jerome K. Jerome was an English writer known for his humorous and satirical style. His works, such as 'Three Men in a Boat' and 'The Wind in the Willows', are beloved by readers.

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Famous Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

“How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”

Humor

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.”

Humor Excitement Potential Packing Breaking Cups

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“When George is hanged, Harris wil be the worst packer in this world”

Humor Packing

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“...they cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.”

Humor Three Men In A Boat

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog.”

Humor Three Men In A Boat

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“We took up the hoops, and began to drop them into the sockets placed for them. You would not imagine this to be dangerous work; but, looking back now, the wonder to me is that any of us are alive to tell the tale.”

Humor Death Dangerous Hoops

Book:Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”

Humor

Author:Jerome K. Jerome

“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”

Humor Happiness Blessing Adversity Disguise Fake People

Author:Jerome K. Jerome

“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.”

Years Two Humor School Funny Left Felt Humorous Germany Two Years

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.”

Ifs Giving Should Children Humor Kids Funny Chance Baby Humorous Fairs Doctors Average

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“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.”

Reason Done Humor Funny Girl Courses Reading Simple Beauty Months Paper Late Treatment Contrast Submit Papers Eighteen Systematic Pretty Girl

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.”

Humor Funny Saws Dog Fronts Amount Humorous Sitting Mirrors Meetings Satisfaction Shops Elsewhere Circus Entrances Examining

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

About the Author

Born: May 2, 1859
Died: June 14, 1927
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 174

Books & Sources

The Idle Thoughts of an Idle FellowRelated source material

Three Men in a BoatRelated source material

Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the DogRelated source material

Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1Related source material

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The Selected Work of Jerome K. JeromeRelated source material

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