Washington Irving Quotes
Quotes
Authors & Writers“The great error in Rips composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“By my soul, but Id have you know its a piece of distinction to be waited on by a Banshee. It's proof that one has pure blood in ones veins.”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“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 rest in peace.”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ One taste provoked another ... at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head ... and he fell into a deep sleep. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ 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 goddesses, and marrying mere mortals. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ There is in every true womans 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. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ I am always at a loss to know how much to believe in my own stories. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave. ”
Washington IrvingQuotes
Authors & Writers“ There is a sacredness in tears... They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ”
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