I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited. Horace Walpole More Quotes by Horace Walpole More Quotes From Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Horace Walpole learningsecretlife Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole atheistwisdomlife Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! Horace Walpole donehalfwise This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole failurelovethinking We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush. Horace Walpole painlonelinessfear Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole ghoulslifefunny 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. Horace Walpole tragedyworldthinking Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. Horace Walpole readerfoolish History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. Horace Walpole romancepolitical Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. Horace Walpole blockheadsmystery It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Horace Walpole vanityselfimpossible I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. Horace Walpole betrayeddogfriendship To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. Horace Walpole common-sensemomentswisdom 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. Horace Walpole truthjusticelying When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Horace Walpole weedgardenpeople Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole virtueviceslost Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness. Horace Walpole weaknessgivingpeople He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul. Horace Walpole melancholytakensoul 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. Horace Walpole moneymenhands It is charming to totter into vogue. Horace Walpole voguecharmingage
