Horace Walpole Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Horace Walpole Quotes
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

Horace Walpole
Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

Horace Walpole
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Horace Walpole
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

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

Horace Walpole
It was easier to conquer it [the East] than to know what to do with it.

Horace Walpole
But, thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.

Horace Walpole
The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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

Horace Walpole
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

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

Horace Walpole
By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee, O America!

Horace Walpole
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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

Horace Walpole
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.

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

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

Horace Walpole
The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

Horace Walpole
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

Horace Walpole
The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Horace Walpole
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

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

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
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Horace Walpole
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Horace Walpole
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Horace Walpole
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Horace Walpole
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.

Horace Walpole