Horace Walpole Quotes

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole

Comedy, Tragedy

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

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

Humor, Him, Sense

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

Life, Whole, Secret

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

Truth, Justice, Lie

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole

Art, Poetry, Beautiful

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

Conquer, Easier

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

Thoughts, Often, Second

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
Horace Walpole

Help, Cannot, Excellent

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

Respect, Sense, Nonsense

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

Age, School, True

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

Found, Necessary, Hours

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

Men, Often, Full

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

Knew, Improve, Vulgar

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

Age, Before, Old

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace Walpole

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

Men, Full, Credit

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Horace Walpole

Place, Ambition, High

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

Nature, Great, Poetry

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

Love, Work, Big

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walpole

Sure, Wisest, Event

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole

Lost, Knows, Virtue

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 24, 1717

Died: March 2, 1797

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