Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford— also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth24 September 1717
thinking ignorant mind
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.
moving thinking talking
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.
thinking hands wings
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?
thinking tragedy world
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
love failure thinking
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
life wisdom thinking
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
error last precedes science
In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last
comedy tragedy
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
comedy tragedy
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
comedy english-author tragedy
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
according act best bless common given goodness happiness philosophy submit wisdom
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
event prophets prove sure wisest
Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first
comedy english-author life tragedy
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
careless monarch nonsense
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch