I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
Horace WalpoleI do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
Horace WalpoleShakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
Horace WalpoleBy deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace WalpoleWhen the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.
Horace Walpole