Horace WalpoleI can forgive injuries, but never benefits.374Life
Horace WalpoleTo act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. ✨ Horace Walpole (1967). The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence343PhilosophyTime
Horace WalpolePlot, 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 … ▶354HumorLove
Horace WalpoleIt was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. ✨ Letter to Mann, 27 March 1772, in 'Letters'322Reflection
Horace WalpoleNine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.333Humanity
Horace WalpoleIn science, mistakes always precede the truth378Truth
Horace WalpoleI know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. ✨ Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron)… ▶323Sadness
Horace WalpoleOur bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories ✨ Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Or… ▶303Reading
Horace WalpoleHe 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 Walp… ▶325Humanity
Horace WalpoleOh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.316Philosophy
Horace WalpoleIt was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. ✨ Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1859). The Letters of Horace Walpol… ▶251Time
Horace WalpolePoetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.251Sadness
Horace WalpoleThe way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. ✨ Letter to Cole, 28 May 1774, in 'Letters'339Time
Horace WalpoleThe passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, app… ▶274LoveThought
Horace WalpoleMen 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, George… ▶285Philosophy
Horace WalpoleThe Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. ✨ Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). The letters of Horace Walpo… ▶308Love
Horace WalpoleI do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. ✨ Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). The letters of Horace W… ▶308Politics
Horace WalpoleThe whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ✨ The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7, February 17, 1934.242Life
Horace WalpoleAlexander 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. ✨ Letter to Montagu, 6 May 1736, in 'Letters… ▶265Truth
Horace WalpoleI 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. 309HumorThought
Horace WalpoleJustice 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.255Truth
Horace WalpoleThis world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. ✨ Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776244HumorThought
Horace WalpoleThe wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ✨ Letter to Thos. Walpole, 19 February 1785, in 'Letters'278Death
Horace WalpoleHow well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.289Reflection
Horace WalpoleBy deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.2810Time
Horace WalpoleThe 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. ✨ Ho… ▶246Philosophy
Horace WalpoleHistory is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. ✨ Horace Walpole (1798). The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ..., p.368237Love
Horace WalpoleLetters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.239Love
Horace WalpoleFoolish writers and readers are created for each other. ✨ Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford, p.494174Reading
Horace WalpoleI firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. ✨ Horace Walpole (1861). The L… ▶163Hope
