Famous quotes containing the words horace walpole, walpole, early and/or career:
““In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself.” -- “Heavens!” cried Isabella ... “what do I hear! You, my lord! You! my father in law! the father of Conrad! the husband of the virtuous and tender Hippolita!” -- “I tell you,” said Manfred imperiously, “Hippolita is no longer my wife; I divorce her from this hour.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Three early risings make an extra day.”
—Chinese proverb.
“John Brown’s career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of nothing so miraculous in our history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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