155 Quotes by Horace Walpole

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

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

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

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch