Washington Irving Quotes
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., C. S. Van Winkle, 1819, p. 64.
The ambassador refused to use the newly installed secure, direct phone line to the State Department in Washington. the State Department in Washington
Poincare and his policy advisors thought that the Germans were bluffing as they had in the past. This time they were not. WWI followed.
Washington Irving 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.