Horace Walpole Quotes
"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Virtue, Vice)
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Comedy, Tragedy, World)
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Comedy, Tragedy, World)
"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Ambition)
"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: People, Want)
"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Men, Credit, World)
"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Love, Work)
"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: First)
"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
(Related: Nature, Poetry, Character, Comedy, Imitation, Rules, Tragedy)
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Circumstances, Historians, Shakespeare)
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Art, Poetry, Harmony, Prose, Sense)
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Life)
"I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing."
- Horace Walpole
"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
(Related: Age, Boys, Pleasure, School, World)
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Nonsense, Respect)
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Help, Politicians)
"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
(Related: Age, Dancing, Day, Old, Ridicule, Talking, Tongue, Youth)
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Men, Credit, World)
"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
(Related: Humor, Imagination, Man, Sense)
"It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it."
- Horace Walpole
"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Old)
"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
(Related: Truth, Lie, Virtue, Acting, Injustice)
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Life, Comedy, Tragedy)
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
- Horace Walpole
(Related: Life, Comedy, Tragedy)