Washington Irving Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

  Washington Irving

  Children, Home, Parent

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

  Washington Irving

  Home, Affection, Rallying

• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

• I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

  Washington Irving

  Home, Parent, Feelings

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq”, p.187

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

  Washington Irving

  Husband, Home, Men

  Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.15

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