Quotes by Horace Walpole

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. (Horace Walpole)

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. (Horace Walpole)

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. (Horace Walpole)

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. (Horace Walpole)

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. (Horace Walpole)

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones 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. (Horace Walpole)

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. (Horace Walpole)

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. (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. (Horace Walpole)

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. (Horace Walpole)