We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

Quote by Horace Walpole

Topics: Quotes about Horace Walpole

Share on:

Similar quotes

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain...

#Horace Walpole

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed

#History

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know;...

#Philosophy, #Wisdom

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

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us...

#Horace Walpole

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot...

#Horace Walpole

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy...

#Horace Walpole

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:...

#Horace Walpole