Words matter. These are the best Washington Irving Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
They who drink beer will think beer.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant 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.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
I’ve had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
