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Horace Walpole Quotes

English - Author September 24, 1717 - March 2, 1797


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

Horace Walpole


Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Horace Walpole


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

Horace Walpole


It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Horace Walpole


I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Horace Walpole



F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

American - Author September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ]F. Scott Fitzgerald


Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

F. Scott Fitzgerald



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