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Famous Horace Walpole Quotes
“[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.”
“[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.”
“Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.”
“One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.”
“Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.”
“I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.”
“Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.”
“Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.”
“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
“The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.”
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
“Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!”