Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

— Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole Quotes

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.

— Horace Walpole

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

It is sinful to cherish those whom heaven has doomed to destruction.

— Horace Walpole

Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.

— Horace Walpole

He sighed, and retired, but with eyes fixed on the gate, until Matilda, closing it, put an end to an interview, in which the hearts of both had drunk so deeply of a passion, which both now tasted for the first time.

— Horace Walpole

The hearts of both had drunk so deeply of a passion which both now tasted for the first time.

— Horace Walpole
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