Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole More Quotes by Horace Walpole More Quotes From Horace Walpole I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. Horace Walpole ugly doe writing Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. Horace Walpole soil rogues lawyer 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. Horace Walpole sleep morning night This world is a comedy, not Life. Horace Walpole comedy life world Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters. Horace Walpole summer winter beautiful Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. Horace Walpole fate real reflection Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Horace Walpole future greatness men I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted. Horace Walpole effort style men [The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste. Horace Walpole being-true taste half How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole vulgar circumstances littles Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable. Horace Walpole vision chance discovery Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. Horace Walpole music would-be children I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. Horace Walpole vulgar nations air If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty. Horace Walpole passion liberty trials I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. Horace Walpole bad-company obliged has-beens Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. Horace Walpole grace may book Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. Horace Walpole ancestor degenerates posterity René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages. Horace Walpole mistress age religion I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy. Horace Walpole ignorant wife men Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them! Horace Walpole angel animal fun
![[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is... by Horace Walpole](https://whatsmyquote.com/images/quote-medium-quote-fe2c57c654e23a73a00ac42d0c911dd8.jpg)
