Famous quotes containing the words horace walpole, walpole and/or years:
“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 (17171797)
“The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)