Quotes by : Washington Irving

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and....

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean,....

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

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like....

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

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

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart....

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle....