Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. — Horace Walpole
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole
![When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] Horace Walpole Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/when-the-prince-of-piedmont-later-charles-emmanuel-iv-king-of-sardinia.jpg?x85372 "When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia]")
![The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, Horace Walpole Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/the-whole-scotch-nation-hitherto-has-been-void-of-wit-and-humour.jpg?x85372 "The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour,")
![Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that Horace Walpole Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/our-british-summers-are-often-though-beautiful-for-verdure-so-cold-that.jpg?x85372 "Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that")
![[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste–or is but half taste. Horace Walpole Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/the-taste-of-the-french-is-too-timid-to-be-true-tasteor-is-but-half-taste.jpg?x85372 "[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste–or is but half taste.")
![King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great Horace Walpole Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/king-rené-of-anjou-140980was-a-strange-compound-of-amiable-great.jpg?x85372 "King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great")
