Quotes about Horace Walpole

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other...

#Horace Walpole

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their...

#Horace Walpole

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into...

#Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

#Horace Walpole

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over...

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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

#Horace Walpole