| 13 Famous Quotes by Horace Walpole
[1-13]
|
|---|
|
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
Interest Quotes |
|
“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.”
Sensibility Quotes Source: see Cunningham's "Walpole"
|
|
“In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit
of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been
consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.”
Scotland Quotes Source: To the Rev. William Mason
|
|
“Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest
prophets make sure of the event first.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: Letter to Thomas Walpole
|
|
“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does
not mis-become a monarch.”
Nonsense Quotes Source: Letter to Sir Horace Mann
|
|
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the
Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a
Xenophon at New York, in time a Vergil at Mexico, and a Newton at
Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit
England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like
the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
Ruin Quotes Source: Letter to Horace Mann
|
|
“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
Ambition Quotes |
|
“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”
Mystery Quotes |
|
“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.”
Ability Quotes |
|
“Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
Credit Quotes |
|
“That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.”
Humor Quotes |
|
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
Humor Quotes |
|
“The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
Tragedy Quotes |
| [1-13] |
Horace Walpole Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
|
|
|