155 Quotes by Horace Walpole

This life is but a pilgrimage.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For ’tis sentiment does it, says I.

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?

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play.

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

It is difficult to divest one’s self of vanity; because impossible to divest one’s self of self-love.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one’s hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.