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
[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste. — Horace Walpole Being true Copy Share Image
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. — Horace Walpole Methodists Copy Share Image
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole Common Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .” — Horace Walpole Unlearned Copy Share Image
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. — Horace Walpole Comedy 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
Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them! — Horace Walpole Angel Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Depends 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
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
Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning… — Horace Walpole Consequence 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
When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age… — Horace Walpole Age 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
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
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 Critic 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
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
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole Ambition Copy Share Image
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. — Horace Walpole Dots Copy Share Image
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! — Horace Walpole Begin Copy Share Image
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. — Horace Walpole Children Copy Share Image
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. — Horace Walpole Repent 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
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole Comedies Copy Share Image
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. — Horace Walpole Difficult Copy Share Image
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole Genius 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 Admire Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole Created Copy Share Image
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole History 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
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
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