By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. — Horace Walpole
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole
It was said of old sarah, duchess of marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. — Horace Walpole