155 Quotes by 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.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

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

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

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

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

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

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.