"The wisest prophets make sure of the event…" — Horace Walpole
"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own…
— Abdallah II
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