Walpole

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

“Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.”
—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)

“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)