Hugh Walpole
Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBEwas an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s but...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 March 1884
Hugh Walpole quotes about
life dream reality
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
men capability greater-things
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.
inspirational matter
Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
art together art-and-life
Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.
men people saint
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
lying making-love way
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.
play safety
Don't play for safety
relationship anniversary marriage
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.
book bottles whiskey
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
doors rooms events
[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.
running country book
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
happiness curious life-happiness
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
spiritual lying believe
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
inspirational courage play
Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.