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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. — Horace Walpole August 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
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and… — Horace Walpole Bills 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
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
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole Bad company Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology… — Horace Walpole Boxes 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
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do… — Horace Walpole Action Copy Share Image
The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a… — Horace Walpole Age 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
Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The… — Horace Walpole Accidents Copy Share Image
Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. — Horace Walpole Lawyer Copy Share Image
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