Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. — Horace Walpole Ancestor Copy Share Image
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. — Horace Walpole Life Copy Share Image
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for… — Horace Walpole Found Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole Humor Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Exercise Copy Share Image
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole Deafness Copy Share Image
Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole Conquer Copy Share Image
Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters. — Horace Walpole Beautiful Copy Share Image
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole Allusion Copy Share Image
When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that… — Horace Walpole Doubt 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 Air Copy Share Image
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that… — Horace Walpole Comedy Copy Share Image
The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. — Horace Walpole Art Copy Share Image
“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so… — Horace Walpole Books Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Contempt Copy Share Image
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe… — Horace Walpole Believe Copy Share Image
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that… — Horace Walpole Discovery Copy Share Image
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we… — Horace Walpole Accounts Copy Share Image
My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If… — Horace Walpole Aversion Copy Share Image
Heaven nor hell shall impedemy designs, said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of his grandfather… — Horace Walpole Things happen fora reason 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… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same… — Horace Walpole Firsts Copy Share Image
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated… — Horace Walpole Air Copy Share Image
Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed… — Horace Walpole Ass Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole Conquer Copy Share Image
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste. — Horace Walpole Being true Copy Share Image
![“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/horace-walpole-3357_beautiful_our-british-summers-are-often-though-bea_731678.jpg)
![“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19f/horace-walpole-3357_discovery_nothing-has-shown-more-fully-the-prodigi_1429214.jpg)
![“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 his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aba/horace-walpole-3357_age_ren-of-anjou-1409-80-painted-a-picture-o_33917.jpg)
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