💬 Quotes

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

"Il y a des époques où l'on se croirait dans un monde fantastique, où les gens s'entretuent pour un regard, pour un mot."

"La défiance est le commencement de la sagesse en politique."

"Il n'y a ni passé ni avenir; le présent est seul à notre disposition."

"L'amour est le plus grand des maux et le plus grand des biens."

"Un homme ne doit jamais se repentir de ses folies, car c'est le seul moyen d'en faire de nouvelles."

"A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere."

"He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity."

"Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered, long-settled retreats, but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places."

"Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at, that so enticing a morsel soon won his homage."

"To have an host of fearful fancies besetting him at each lonely turn, some grim monster appalling him in the dark, should he but turn a look behind, was for the unfortunate Ichabod all too much."

"The old country wives, however, who are best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means."

"I had the story bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."

"He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an embodiment of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface."

"Guess everything's got to come to an end at some time or other."

"We've always known each other, kind of."

"The inexorable fact was that because you're 'stuck' in a place, you don't merely starve because you're not used to it, you keep on deadeningly and drearily alive, and when gets to be your turn, you die."

"Right down the middle, so we'd fetch up square in the big elm. It's a big tree. It's dead right for it."

"Disko Trott never allowed his crew to waste time when fish were under the keel."

"A man that's blind to his seasickness is apt to be blind to other things."