"The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void……" — Horace Walpole
"The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it."
—
Horace Walpole
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
55 Quotes by Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole has 55 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
-
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
-
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
-
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't…
-
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
-
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's,…
-
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to…
-
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
-
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and…
-
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is…
-
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless…
See all 55 quotes by Horace Walpole »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »