Walpole

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

    The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    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 (1717–1797)

    Letters to absence can a voice impart,
    And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)