272 Quotes by Washington Irving

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.

There is a sacredness in tears

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.