- Change theme
Quotes by Washington Irving
- Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
- The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
- 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 a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
- 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.
- There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
- Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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