When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.
Horace WalpoleIt was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace WalpoleSerendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.
Horace WalpoleI shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Horace Walpole