Famous Horace Walpole Quotations

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"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."
by Horace Walpole
"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."
by Horace Walpole
"Foolish writers and readers are created for each other."
by Horace Walpole
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
by Horace Walpole
"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident."
by Horace Walpole
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
by Horace Walpole
"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
by Horace Walpole
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
by Horace Walpole
"This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
by Horace Walpole
"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
by Horace Walpole
"Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart."
by Horace Walpole
"Världen är en komedi för dem som tänker, en tragedi för dem som känner."
by Horace Walpole
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
by Horace Walpole or Jean de la Bryère
"'Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy' Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the..."
by Horace Walpole
"Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town?"
by Horace Walpole
"If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment."
by Horace Walpole
"When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, 'Good ..."
by Horace Walpole


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