Horace Walpole Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.”

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

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

“Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”

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

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