Horace Walpole Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Horace Walpole Quotes and Sayings


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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
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    This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. Horace Walpole | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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