[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV. — Horace Walpole Books Copy Share Image
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole History Copy Share Image
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole Comedy Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Art Copy Share Image
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.” — Horace Walpole Bombast Copy Share Image
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one… — Horace Walpole Architecture Copy Share Image
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that… — Horace Walpole Nobility Copy Share Image
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. — Horace Walpole Courage Copy Share Image
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the… — Horace Walpole Curiosity Copy Share Image
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature… — Horace Walpole Advice Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Brother Copy Share Image
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole Absence Copy Share Image
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Character Copy Share Image
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail To draw the tear a down… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by… — Horace Walpole Absurd Copy Share Image
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Attention Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner… — Horace Walpole Ancient Copy Share Image
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think… — Horace Walpole Clergymen Copy Share Image
It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being… — Horace Walpole Blindness Copy Share Image
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out… — Horace Walpole Art Copy Share Image
If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Character Copy Share Image
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![“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/79e/horace-walpole-3357_alarms_the-prosecution-of-warren-hastings-thoug_1849854.jpg)
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