Quotes by Horace Walpole

“You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”

“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”

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

In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

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.

Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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

To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and the best philosophy is to do ones duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to ones lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.

Old friends are the great blessing of ones later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

The best philosophy is to do ones duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to ones lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

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

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.