Famous quotes containing the words horace walpole, walpole, early and/or career:
“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge—criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment—three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)