It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole Conquer 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
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole Common 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
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole Comedy Copy Share Image
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole Ambitious 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
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
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
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
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
[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
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole Genius 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole Created 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
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole Absence Copy Share Image
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