All Washington Irving Quotes
- The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down… Affirmed
- Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! Brightness
- There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Affection
- Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour… Art
- He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare… Dare
- Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it Banquet
- The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation. Author
- Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year! Bearing
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. Mark
- Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. Enmity
- History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… Arches
- For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… Add
- Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a… Bramble
- [I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time... Arabia
- Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures… Believe
- A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing… Air
- There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. Bachelor
- There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse. Bad
- The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… Collision
- The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. Apt
- To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman… Age
- No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. Bosom
- The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Dead
- Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others. Apt
- Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of… Blast