Horace Walpole Quotes


30 quotes:

"Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold."
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"In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last"
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"History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed"
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"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."
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"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."
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"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
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"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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"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."
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"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
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"I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing."
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"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."
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"It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it."
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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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