How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

— Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole Quotes

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

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

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

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

— Horace Walpole

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

— Horace Walpole

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

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

— Horace Walpole

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

— Horace Walpole

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

— Horace Walpole

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play.

— Horace Walpole

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.

— Horace Walpole

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

— Horace Walpole

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

— Horace Walpole

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else.

— Horace Walpole

This life is but a pilgrimage.

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This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

— Horace Walpole

The most remarkable thing I have observed since I came abroad, is, that there are no people so obviously mad as the English.

— Horace Walpole

My veracity is dearer to me than my life,” said the peasant; “nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.

— Horace Walpole

There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man, except an unlearned one .

— Horace Walpole

My soul abhors a falsehood.

— Horace Walpole
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