Washington Irving Quotes

133 quotes in 1715 categories

• A mother is the truest friend we have...
• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
• It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I…
• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a…
• He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is…
• Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing…
• There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is…
• Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
• No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
• I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged…
• If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart…
• The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others…
• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human…
• Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
• A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
• A woman's life is a history of the affections.
• He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

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