The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. Horace Walpole More Quotes by Horace Walpole More Quotes From Horace Walpole One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both. Horace Walpole ignorantmindthinking 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? Horace Walpole growing-upblessingmemories It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. Horace Walpole conquereasierplanning A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more. Horace Walpole cuttingshininguse Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds! Horace Walpole ignorancediscoveryideas Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene. Horace Walpole farcemourninglife-is Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. Horace Walpole conquerenglandwant Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance. Horace Walpole eyeignorancetwo Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing? Horace Walpole wingshandsthinking An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it! Horace Walpole castlesfamilyreal 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. Horace Walpole passionagemoving The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Horace Walpole cursemoderndoe Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. Horace Walpole coldinkwriting That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side. Horace Walpole linesgeniusreligion We must cultivate our garden. Horace Walpole optimismgardenresponsibility Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar. Horace Walpole geniusagemight Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack. Horace Walpole ministersdrspieces 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 womenenoughsometimes Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide. Horace Walpole bathsjudgmentwomen At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra. Horace Walpole lastscuriositygiving
