Author: Horace Walpole

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Horace Walpole

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

- Horace Walpole

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

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

- 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.

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

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

- Horace Walpole

When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

- Horace Walpole

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

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

- Horace Walpole

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