20 Quotations by Horace Walpole
- 1. Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjo ...
- 2. Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
- 3. Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- 4. I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don' ...
- 5. It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink ...
- 6. Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
- 7. Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- 8. Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o ...
- 9. Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- 10. Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
- 11. Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha ...
- 12. Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha ...
- 13. The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one ...
- 14. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydi ...
- 15. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- 16. The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
- 17. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- 18. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
- 19. This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
- 20. Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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