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Not who you're looking for? Others named Horace Walpole: painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Why, I'll swear I see no difference between a country gentleman and a sirloin; whenever the first laughs, or the latter is cut, there run out just the same streams of gravy! ... Oh! my dear Sir, don't you find that nine parts in ten of the world are of no use but to make you wish yourself with that tenth part? ...”
“It was easier to conquer it [the East] than to know what to do with it.”
“Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.”
“He was my counsel in affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry.”
“And is anybody unhappy about another, unless they are in love with them?”
““My councils do not need a Friar’s intervention,” said Manfred; “and of all men living is that hoary traitor the only one whom you delight to confer with?””
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.