Washington Irving Quotes

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving

Good, Hope, Acting

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving

Heart, True, Whose

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving

Age, Tongue, Temper

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving

Yourself, Down, Put

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving

Soul, Noble, Scenery

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
Washington Irving

Tongue, Tool, Sharper

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving

Change, Bad, Place

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.
Washington Irving

Beauty, Woman, After

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

Mind, End, Struggle

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Washington Irving

Marriage, Two, Three

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
Washington Irving

Nothing, Enough, Whom

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.
Washington Irving

Away, Genius, Among

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

Through, Working, Minds

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 Irving

Today, Tomorrow, Hero

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving

Sympathy, Mind, Dead

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving

War, Enemy, Ourselves

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving

Men, Home, Discipline

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving

Business, Young, Lawyers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 3, 1783

Died: November 28, 1859

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