Walpole

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

    How much on outward show does all depend,
    If virtues from within no lustre lend!
    Strip off th’externals M and Y, the rest
    Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)