Hugh Walpole

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

— Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

— Hugh Walpole

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness…

— Hugh Walpole

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has…

— Hugh Walpole

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers…

— Hugh Walpole

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

— Hugh Walpole

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie…

— Hugh Walpole

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

— Hugh Walpole

“Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.”

— Hugh Walpole

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

— Hugh Walpole

“She was young enough and inexperienced enough to make many demands upon life - that it should be romantic, that it should,…

— Hugh Walpole

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate…

— Hugh Walpole

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

— Hugh Walpole

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

— Hugh Walpole

Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that…

— Hugh Walpole