More Quotes by Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
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 others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
