Horace Walpole Quotes & Sayings
22 most famous Horace Walpole quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
“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.”
“It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.”
“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
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