Famous quotes by »

Horace Walpole

English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)

Update this biography »
Complete biography of Horace Walpole »

0 fans

Sort by:PopularityA - Z

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow -- To Be old friends?

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

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

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

– Horace Walpole

Rate it:

Share your thoughts on Horace Walpole's quotes with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Horace Walpole Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 21 Jan. 2025. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Horace+Walpole+Quotes>.

Missing a quote of Horace Walpole?

Know another good quote of Horace Walpole? Don't keep it to yourself!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Books related to

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto
from $4.15
Selected Letters of Horace Walpole
$24.84

from $19.61
Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole
from $2.99
The Castle of Otranto
from $6.39
Three Gothic Novels
from $2.33

Our favorite collection of

Famous Authors

Hippocrates
460 BC - 370 BC
Al Capone
1899 - 1947
Mark Twain
1835 - 1910
Mother Teresa
1910 - 1997
Aristotle
384 BC - 322 BC
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 - 1968
Carl Gustav Jung
1875 - 1961

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

Who said: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking."?

A Steve Jobs

B Nelson Mandela

C James Cameron

D Mark Zuckerberg