Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Little rogues easily become great ones.

One rogue leads another.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.