Best Washington Irving Quotations
- Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. Acting
- He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. Enchanter
- The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. Hero
- I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. Believe
- Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady… Always Shoots
- Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. Attend
- The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Condolences
- Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Abroad
- There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble… Delight
- There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that… Bad
- Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually… Community
- It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -… Empty
- The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on… All
- After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence,… All
- Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. Adversity
- after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head Head
- I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Admiration
- All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… All
- Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to… Benevolence
- Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. Breathed
- The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all… Adversity
- A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends… Adversity
- Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works… Among
- To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might… Dead
- And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate... Abandoned
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