It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole Conquer 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 Coal 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
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole Afraid Copy Share Image
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Character 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 Bills Copy Share Image
[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
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Genius Copy Share Image
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness… — Horace Walpole Bless Copy Share Image
We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by… — Horace Walpole Devotion Copy Share Image
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to… — Horace Walpole Chance 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 Believe Copy Share Image
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,… — Horace Walpole Axes 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 Age Copy Share Image
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women… — Horace Walpole Absurd 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 Bits 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 Alarms 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 Agents 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
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Accounts Copy Share Image
Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the… — Horace Walpole Affectionate 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
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares… — Horace Walpole Born Copy Share Image
“Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad,… — Horace Walpole Three years Copy Share Image
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![“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/095/horace-walpole-3357_bits_in-the-drawing-room-of-the-queen-s-palac_2462665.jpg)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/79e/horace-walpole-3357_alarms_the-prosecution-of-warren-hastings-thoug_1849854.jpg)
![“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/667/horace-walpole-3357_brother_when-the-prince-of-wales-later-king-geor_1485613.jpg)
