Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. Horace Walpole artbeautifulexchange Change image and share on social
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. Horace Walpole repentscarcethought Change image and share on social
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. Horace Walpole borrowcircumstancecircumstantial Change image and share on social
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. Horace Walpole ageavoiddance share on social
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Horace Walpole deafnessgainlose Change image and share on social
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole beautycharactercomedy Change image and share on social
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. Horace Walpole admireallowdue Change image and share on social
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. Horace Walpole dotduchessink Change image and share on social
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole createpeopletenth Change image and share on social
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole farthinglosevice Change image and share on social
