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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
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“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
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“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
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“He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“I can forget injuries, but never benefits.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
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“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel 鈥 a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”
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“In science, mistakes always precede the truth.”
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“A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.”
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“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
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“Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.”
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
“It is sinful to cherish those whom heaven has doomed to destruction.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“The most remarkable thing I have observed since I came abroad, is, that there are no people so obviously mad as the English.”
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
― The Letters of Horace Walpole
“Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza鈥檚 daughter, Isabella; and she had already been delivered by her guardians into the hands of Manfred, that he might celebrate the wedding as soon as Conrad鈥檚 infirm state of health would permit.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“This life is but a pilgrimage.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek?”
― The Castle of Otranto
these melancholy pages speak;
say, gracious lady, shall she fail
To draw the tear a down from thy cheek?”
― The Castle of Otranto
“I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else”
― The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford 1770-1797....
― The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford 1770-1797....
“All very ancient history, except that of the illuminated Jews, is a perfect fable. It was written by priests, or collected from their reports; and calculated solely to raise lofty ideas of the origin of each nation. Gods and demi-gods were the principal actors; and truth is seldom to be expected where the personages are supernatural. The Greek historians have no advantage over the Peruvian, but in the beauty of their language, or from that language being more familiar to us. Mango Capac, the son of the sun, is as authentic a founder of a royal race, as the progenitor of the Heraclidae. What truth indeed could be expected, when even the identity of person is uncertain? The actions of one were ascribed to many, and of many to one. It is not known whether there was a single Hercules or twenty.”
― Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
― Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third
“賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賵賲賷丿賷丕 賱賱匕賷賳 賷賮賰乇賵賳 ... 賵 賲兀爻丕丞 賱賱匕賷賳 賷卮毓乇賵賳.”
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“I come," replied he, "to thee, Manfred, usurper of the principality of Otranto, from the renowned and invincible Knight, the Knight of the Gigantic Sabre: in the name of his Lord, Frederic, Marquis of Vicenza, he demands the Lady Isabella, daughter of that Prince, whom thou hast basely and traitorously got into thy power, by bribing her false guardians during his absence; and he requires thee to resign the principality of Otranto, which thou hast usurped from the said Lord Frederic, the nearest of blood to the last rightful Lord, Alfonso the Good. If thou dost not instantly comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto