Zitate von Horace Walpole
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Horace Walpole:
Das Leben ist für Denkende eine Komödie und für Fühlende eine Tragödie.
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Premierminister, Schriftsteller (England, 1717 - 1797).
Horace Walpole · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Horace Walpole wäre heute 306 Jahre, 7 Monate, 5 Tage oder 111.982 Tage alt.
Geboren am 24.09.1717 in London
Gestorben am 02.03.1797 in London
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Weitere 52 Zitate von Horace Walpole
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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They seem to know no medium between a mitre and a crown of martyrdom. If the clergy are not called to the latter, they neverdeviate from the pursuit of the former. One would think their motto was, Canterbury or Smithfield.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness what has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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We are now so badly deteriorated that three Frenchmen can evidently beat one Englishman.
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What has one to do, when one grows tired of the world, as we both do, but to draw nearer and nearer, and gently waste the remains of life with friends with whom one began it?
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When men write for profit, they are not very delicate.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
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When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?
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While he felt like a victim, he acted like a hero.
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Whoever knows the interior of affairs, must be sensible to how many more events the faults of statesmen give birth, than are produced by their good intentions.
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