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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
— Robert Walpole
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
— Hugh Walpole
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
— Horace Walpole
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
— Hugh Walpole
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
— Horace Walpole
Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.
— George Bernard Shaw
All history is a lie!
— Robert Walpole
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
— Robert Walpole
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
— Horace Walpole
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
— Horace Walpole
It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
— Horace Walpole
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
— Horace Walpole
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.
— Horace Walpole
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
— Robert Walpole
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
— Horace Walpole
I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
— Robert Walpole
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
— Horace Walpole
[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.
— Horace Walpole
I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
— Horace Walpole
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.
— Horace Walpole
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
— Horace Walpole
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
— Horace Walpole
I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.
— Stephen Fry
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
— Hugh Walpole