Quotes by Horace Walpole

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of...

#Humor

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

#Age, #Funny

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of...

#Age

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's...

#Friendship, #Love

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

#Philosophy, #Wisdom

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads

#Wisdom

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