Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Writing
Happiness comes from within a man, from some curious adjustment to life.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Acceptance, Happiness
It is difficult to divest one’s self of vanity; because impossible to divest one’s self of self-love.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Vanity
One’s mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Age
The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints—and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Happiness
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one’s hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Money
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Failures, Mistakes
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I’d place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Ambition
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Misery, Money
Persons extremely reserved and diffident are like the old enamelled watches, which had painted covers that hindered you from seeing what time it was.
—Hugh Walpole
Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Safety, Danger, Risk, Anger
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Power
Much of reputation depends on the period in which it rises.—In dark periods, when talents appear, they shine like the sun through a small hole in the window-shutter, and the strong beam dazzles amid the surrounding gloom.—open the shutter, and the general diffusion of light attracts no notice.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Fame
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Love, Beauty
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Writing
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
—Hugh Walpole
Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
—Hugh Walpole
Old friends are the great blessings of one’s later years. Half a word conveys one’s meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
—Hugh Walpole
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship, Events
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