Famous Washington Irving Quotations

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"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
by Washington Irving
"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."
by Washington Irving
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
by Washington Irving
"A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
by Washington Irving
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
by Washington Irving
"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
by Washington Irving
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
by Washington Irving
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
by Washington Irving
"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
by Washington Irving
"Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven."
by Washington Irving
"I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories."
by Washington Irving
"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
by Washington Irving
"Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles."
by Washington Irving
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble."
by Washington Irving
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
by Washington Irving
"In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part."
by Washington Irving
"They who drink beer will think beer."
by Washington Irving
"Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
by Washington Irving
"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories."
by Washington Irving
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."
by Washington Irving
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
by Washington Irving
"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 luster."
by Washington Irving
"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
by Washington Irving
"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."
by Washington Irving
"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 inclinations."
by Washington Irving
"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."
by Washington Irving
"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
by Washington Irving
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avar..."
by Washington Irving
"The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion."
by Washington Irving
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage- coach, that it is often a ..."
by Washington Irving


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