What did Horace Walpole mean by: Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. - Horace Walpole Copy
+ The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Curse, Modern, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Common Sense, Moments, Wisdom, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Garden, Weed, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Learn, Secret, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Summer, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Funny, 0 - Horace Walpole
+ By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Horace Walpole, Gains, Missing, Nonsense, 0 - Horace Walpole
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Don’t wait to be happy to laugh… You may die and never have laughed. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
