Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 03. April 1783 |
Geburtsort | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Todesort | Tarrytown,_New_York |
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Beschreibung | Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s. |
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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.
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.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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.
