More Quotes by Washington Irving
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.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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.
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
