Horace Walpole Quotes

• The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

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

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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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• 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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• Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

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• We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness … for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

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• Old friends are the great blessing of one’s later years. … They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

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• The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

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Horace Walpole (45)

Birth:	24th September, 1717
Death:	2nd March, 1797
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Historian, Politician

About

Horace Walpole was born in London, England. He was an English art historian and Whig politician. He was the son of the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. He educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. His literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was elected Whig Member of Parliament for Callington from 1741-1754, a Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1754-1757, and a Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1757-1768. He wrote several books include: Anecdotes of Painting in England, Historic Doubts on the Life And Reign of King Richard III, The Mysterious Mother, On Modern Gardening, and Hieroglyphic Tales.

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