Quotes of Horace Walpole - somelinesforyou

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ In science, mistakes always precede the truth. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ 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

“ The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole

“ The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ 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

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

- Horace Walpole

“ 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

“ The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ”

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole

“ Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting. ”

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole

“ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. ”

- Horace Walpole

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

- Horace Walpole
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