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Horace Walpole citáty a výroky

„Svět připadá komický těm, kteří myslí, a tragický těm, kteří cítí.“

„Tento svět je komedie pro ty, kteří myslí, tragédie pro ty, kteří cítí!“

Originál: (en) … this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel!

Source: [Walpole, Horace, 1843, Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann: His Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court of Florence, from 1760 to 1785, Svazek 2, R. Bentley, 201, angličtina]

Horace Walpole: Citáty anglicky

“My councils do not need a Friar’s intervention,” said Manfred; “and of all men living is that hoary traitor the only one whom you delight to confer with?”

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Horace Walpole kniha The Castle of Otranto

Section 4
The Castle of Otranto (1764)

“Manfred was not one of those savage tyrants who wanton in cruelty unprovoked. The circumstances of his fortune had given an asperity to his temper, which was naturally humane; and his virtues were always ready to operate, when his passions did not obscure his reason.”

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Horace Walpole kniha The Castle of Otranto

Section 1
The Castle of Otranto (1764)

“… Why, I'll swear I see no difference between a country gentleman and a sirloin; whenever the first laughs, or the latter is cut, there run out just the same streams of gravy! … Oh! my dear Sir, don't you find that nine parts in ten of the world are of no use but to make you wish yourself with that tenth part? …”

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Horace Walpole

Letter to John Chute, from Houghton, 20 Aug. 1743 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t5p84vt55;view=1up;seq=425, p. 265, The Letter of Horace Walpole, ed. P. Cunnighham, vol. 1