Walpole

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

    A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)