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
Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters. — Horace Walpole Beautiful Copy Share Image
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. — Horace Walpole Ancestor Copy Share Image
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole Humor 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
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. — Horace Walpole Subjects Copy Share Image
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. — Horace Walpole Has beens 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
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him… — Horace Walpole Humor Copy Share Image
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole History Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .” — Horace Walpole 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 Alarms 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
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. — Horace Walpole Book 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
Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole Conquer Copy Share Image
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for… — Horace Walpole Humor Copy Share Image
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice… — Horace Walpole Acting 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
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. — Horace Walpole Children 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
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
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