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Type: Author Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Date of Birth: September 24, 1717 Date of Death: March 2, 1797 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Horace Walpole Related Authors: Samuel Johnson Anthony Trollope C. S. Lewis Walter Bagehot H. G. Wells Evelyn Waugh Thomas More Lewis Carroll |
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Horace Walpole By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Horace Walpole How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. Horace Walpole I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. Horace Walpole I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. Horace Walpole Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Horace Walpole It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. Horace Walpole It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. Horace Walpole Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. Horace Walpole Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Horace Walpole Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Horace Walpole Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Horace Walpole Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. Horace Walpole |
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