Horace Walpole Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, Wisdom, Atheist

  Horace Walpole (1929). “The castle of Otranto”

• This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776

• I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Tragedy, World

  Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.

• Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

  Horace Walpole

  Passion, Character, Tragedy

• A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

  Horace Walpole

  Suffering, Tragedy, Delay

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4955, Delphi Classics

• This world is a comedy, not Life.

  Horace Walpole

  Life, World, Comedy

• Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
  Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

  Horace Walpole

  Writing, Laughing, Tragedy

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