"Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads." — Horace Walpole
"Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads."
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Horace Walpole
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55 Quotes by Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole has 55 quotes on this site.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't…
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
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At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's,…
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to…
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and…
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is…
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The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless…
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More Blockheads Quotes
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians…
— Martin Luther
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries…
— Prince William
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an…
— H.G. Wells
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once…
— Friedrich Schiller
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Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
— Warren Buffett
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Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his…
— Alexander Pope
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The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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