Horace Walpole Quotes

To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to...

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one...

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to othe...

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

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don'...

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain ...

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events a...

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever in...

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends...

The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who 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 c...

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har...

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

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