Famous quotes containing the word walpole:
“How much on outward show does all depend,
If virtues from within no lustre lend!
Strip off thexternals M and Y, the rest
Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“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 (17171797)
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