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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. — Horace Walpole

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one. — Horace Walpole

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. — Horace Walpole

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. — Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed,
Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste. — Horace Walpole

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek? — Horace Walpole

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

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man. — Horace Walpole

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. — Horace Walpole

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. — Horace Walpole

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. — Horace Walpole

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole

In science, mistakes always precede the truth. — Horace Walpole

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV. — 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

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his. — Horace Walpole

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole

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

My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other. — Horace Walpole

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. — Horace Walpole

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide. — Horace Walpole

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. — Horace Walpole

This world is a comedy, not Life. — Horace Walpole

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. — Horace Walpole

Our supreme governors, the mob. — Horace Walpole

Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them! — Horace Walpole

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste
or is but half taste. — Horace Walpole

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits. — Horace Walpole

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. — Horace Walpole

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

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! — Horace Walpole

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. — Horace Walpole

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. — Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. — Horace Walpole

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters. — 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

Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Horace Walpole

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. — Horace Walpole

There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one . — Horace Walpole

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories — Horace Walpole

My soul abhors a falsehood — 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

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. — Horace Walpole

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. — Horace Walpole

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. — Horace Walpole

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. — Horace Walpole

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. — Horace Walpole

It is charming to totter into vogue. — Horace Walpole

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. — Horace Walpole

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. — Horace Walpole

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole

This life is but a pilgrimage. — Horace Walpole

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe. — Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole

This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret. — Horace Walpole

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees. — Horace Walpole

Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. — Horace Walpole

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene. — Horace Walpole