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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.




Horace Walpole Quotes: "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.



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

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




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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Foolish writers and readers are created for each other."

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.




Horace Walpole Quotes: "Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!"

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians."

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept."

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.




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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know."

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.



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

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



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "This world is a comedy, not Life."

This world is a comedy, not Life.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads."

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it."

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold."

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority."

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra."

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch."

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted."

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters."

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul."

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it."

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I."

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?"

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?



Horace Walpole Quotes: "How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.



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

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



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

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



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil."

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste."

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "It is charming to totter into vogue."

It is charming to totter into vogue.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest."

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.



Horace Walpole Quotes: "Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!"

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!



Horace Walpole Quotes: "An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!"

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!