Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Character Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Ambush Copy Share Image
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one… — Horace Walpole Architecture Copy Share Image
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature… — Horace Walpole Advice 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 Maid Hapless Copy Share Image
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. — Horace Walpole Courage Copy Share Image
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the… — Horace Walpole Curiosity Copy Share Image
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by… — Horace Walpole Absurd 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… — Horace Walpole Baths Copy Share Image
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,… — Horace Walpole Attention 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… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner… — Horace Walpole Ancient Copy Share Image
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
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like… — Horace Walpole Drs Copy Share Image
It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being… — Horace Walpole Blindness 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
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit,… — Horace Walpole Example Copy Share Image
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out… — Horace Walpole Art 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… — Horace Walpole Character Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Borrowed 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,… — Horace Walpole Brilliant 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
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 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
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
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
Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of… — Horace Walpole Bible 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
[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he… — Horace Walpole King 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
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Horace Walpole Comedy Copy Share Image
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole Humor Copy Share Image
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. — Horace Walpole Controversy Copy Share Image
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. — Horace Walpole Clarity Copy Share Image
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. — Horace Walpole Lawyer Copy Share Image
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. — Horace Walpole Careless Copy Share Image
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole Betrayed Copy Share Image
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Authors Copy Share Image
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