Quotes by Horace Walpole

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.””

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.””

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.””

“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.””

“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 whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.””