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
“There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .” — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole 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
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole Comedy Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Exercise 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
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole 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
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
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 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
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
King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to… — Horace Walpole 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
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we… — Horace Walpole 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 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 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
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order… — Horace Walpole 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
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole Comedy 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 whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. — Horace Walpole Life Copy Share Image
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole 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
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Character Copy Share Image
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole 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 Copy Share Image
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole Comedies Copy Share Image
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole Genius 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 Copy Share Image
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![“King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/570/horace-walpole-3357_acquire_king-ren-of-anjou-1409-80-was-a-strange_3121707.jpg)
![“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79e/horace-walpole-3357_alarms_the-prosecution-of-warren-hastings-thoug_1849854.jpg)
![“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the…” quote by Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/horace-walpole-3357_bits_in-the-drawing-room-of-the-queen-s-palac_2462665.jpg)
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