Quotes by Walpole, Horace

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. The >>

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that fe >>

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. >>

Quotations about Generations

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. >>

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty ge >>

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignor >>

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Walpole, Horace