Washington Irving Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”

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

“I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.”

“Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.”

“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.”

“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.”