Washington Irving Quotes

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existe...

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys...

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling t...

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves an...

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is to...

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...

Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the ...

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and th...

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but...

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean,...

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...

There is, perhaps, no class of men on the face of the earth, says Captain Bonneville, who lead a lif...

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind hear...

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayli...

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be suppla...

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers ...

The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no g...

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travell...

To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined i...

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveli...

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their...

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charit...

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more elo...

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent...

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achiev...

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed autho...

Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-hu...

My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, h...

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating ...

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r...

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li...

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that...

I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r...

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv...

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare,...

No! no! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been...

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand h...