Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — 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 Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole 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 not follow… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be… — 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 character, of… — Horace Walpole 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 can distinguish… — Horace Walpole 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
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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