Douglas William Jerrold (3 January 1803 - 8 June 1857) was an English dramatist and writer.
Jerrold was born in London. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook in Kent. In 1807 Douglass moved to Sheerness, where he spent his childhood. He occasionally took a child part on the stage, but his father's profession held little attraction for him. In December 1813 he joined the guardship Namur, where he had Jane Austen's brother Francis as captain, and served as a midshipman until the peace of 1815. He saw nothing of the war save a number of wounded soldiers from Waterloo, but he retained an affection for the sea.
The peace of 1815 ruined Jerrold's father; on 1 January 1816 he took his family to London, where Douglas began work as a printer's apprentice, and in 1819 he became a compositor in the printing-office of the Sunday Monitor. Several short papers and copies of verses by him had already appeared in the sixpenny magazines, and a criticism of the opera Der Freischütz was admired by the editor, who requested further contributions. Thus Jerrold became a professional journalist.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. peace & war
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. happiness
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass. marriage
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. religion
We love peace, but not peace at any price. peace