Citações Washington Irving
„Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.“
Fonte: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
„There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.“
— Washington Irving, livro Tales of a Traveller
Tales of a Traveler (1824), Preface, p. 7.
Fonte: Tales of a Traveller
„A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.“
— Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Fonte: "Rip Van Winkle".
„Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.“
Fonte: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
„To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Fonte: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
„And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate…“
Fonte: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
„There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.“
Fonte: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
„There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.“
"The Adventure Of The German Student".
„In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. […]“
Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)
„Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.“
— Washington Irving, livro Bracebridge Hall
Bracebridge Hall. Bachelors (1822).
„They who drink beer will think beer.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Stratford-on-Avon".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
„Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
„His wife "ruled the roost," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.“
Book IV, ch. 4.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
„Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the oppressed, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
„Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Traits of Indian Character".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
„I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.“
Letter to William Irving, Jr., about his positive attitude acquired while traveling in Europe.
Fonte: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.
„Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.“
— Washington Irving, livro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
