Horace Walpole Quotes

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

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

"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."

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

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

"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."

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

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

"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

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

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

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

"Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold."

"Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?"

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

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

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

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