Quote: Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: 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]
Quote: This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, [Horace Walpole]
Quote: The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority [Horace Walpole]
Quote: History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads? [Horace Walpole]
Quote: Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends? [Horace Walpole]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. [Horace Walpole]
Quote: I sit with my toes in a brook,
And if any one axes forwhy?
I hits them a rap with my crook,
For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. [Horace Walpole]