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Letter "W" » Washington Irving Quotes
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«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.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Fulfilment,
Hope
| Keywords:
acting, as good as, fulfilled, fulfillment, provides
«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»
«The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affliction, brood, brooded, broods, cherish, divorced, every other, heal, keep open, wound
«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»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
charms, deficient, divinities, divinity, fascinated, regular
«Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!»
«A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
affections, History of, History of the
«Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.»
«There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.»
«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»
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