272 Quotes by Washington Irving

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

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

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

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.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

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

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

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

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.