Famous quotes containing the words horace walpole, walpole and/or career:
“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the standard principle.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating Low Average Ability, reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)