Horace Walpole Quotes About Comedy

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  • 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.

  • This world is a comedy, not Life.

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

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

    Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776
  • Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

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

    Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.
  • A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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