More Quotes by Washington Irving
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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.
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.
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 woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
