155 Quotes by Horace Walpole

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

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

The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.

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