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Horace Walpole quotes

English Author September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797

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Horace Walpole quote: "The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to..."
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole quote: "Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those..."
Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole quote: "Life is a comedy to those who think, and tragedy to those who..."
Life is a comedy to those who think, and tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole quote: "Life is a Comedy for those who Think... and a Tragedy for..."
Life is a Comedy for those who Think... and a Tragedy for those who Feel. Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole quote: "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing..."
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole
Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza’s daughter, Isabella; and she had already been delivered by her guardians into the hands of Manfred,... Horace Walpole
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
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
Horace Walpole quote: "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious..."
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole
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. Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole quote: "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one..."
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Horace Walpole
But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return. Horace Walpole
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe. 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
Horace Walpole quote: "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those..."
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole

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