Horace Walpole Quotes

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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Horace Walpole
[Lovat] was beheaded yesterday, and died extremely well, without passion, affectation, buffoonery or timidity: his behaviour was natural and intrepid.

Horace Walpole
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Walpole
His speeches were fine, but as much laboured as his extempore sayings.
Of Lord Chesterfield

Horace Walpole
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

Horace Walpole
When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

Horace Walpole
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

Horace Walpole
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Horace Walpole
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Horace Walpole
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Horace Walpole
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Horace Walpole
Allen of Bath procured them the same honours from thence; and for some weeks it rained gold boxes: Chester, Worcester, Norwich, Bedford, Salisbury, Yarmouth, Tewkesbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stirling, and other populous and chief towns following the example. Exeter, with singular affection, sent boxes of heart of oak.

Horace Walpole