Quotes by 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

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a...

#Horace Walpole

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot...

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them...

#Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense...

#Horace Walpole

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

#Horace Walpole