Quotes by Washington Irving

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

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.

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

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

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.

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

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.