Frases de Horace Walpole

Horacio Walpole, IV conde de Orford, conocido comúnmente como Horace Walpole, , político, escritor e innovador arquitecto británico. Fue primo del marino Horacio Nelson . Escribió la célebre novela El castillo de Otranto, y multitud de cartas que ofrecen una imagen muy ilustrativa de la aristocracia de su tiempo, particularmente desde el punto de vista intelectual. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. septiembre 1717 – 2. marzo 1797
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Frases célebres de Horace Walpole

“Los viejos amigos son las grandes bendiciones de los últimos años. La mitad de una palabra dice el significado entero. Tienen memoria de los mismos eventos y tienen el mismo modo de pensar. Tengo relaciones jóvenes que pueden crecer conmigo, porque mi naturaleza es cariñosa, ¿pero pueden llegar a ser viejos amigos? Mi edad lo prohíbe. Aún menos pueden ser compañeros. ¿Es amistad la palabra para explicar la mitad de lo que uno dice? Uno debe relacionar la historia de su memoria e ideas; ¿Y qué es eso de historias jóvenes pero viejas?”

Original: «Olds friends are the greats blessings of one's latter years. Half a word eonveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow old friends? My age forbids that. Still less can they grow companions. Is it a friendship to explain half one says? One must relate the history of one's memory and ideas; and what is that to the young but old stories?»
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 190. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false

“Los hombres son a menudo capaces de cosas más grandes que las que realizan. Son enviados al mundo con letras de crédito y rara vez se aprovechan al máximo.”

Original: «Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent».
Fuente: Bate, John (Wesleyan Minister.) A Cyclopædia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths; consisting of definitions, metaphors, similes, emblems, etc.... Editorial H. J. Tresidder; Wesleyan Conference Office, 1865. Página 95. https://books.google.es/books?id=esPenW7YWegC&pg=PA95&dq=Men+are+often+capable+of+greater+things+than+they+perform.+They+are+sent+into+the+world+with+bills+of+credit,+and+seldom+draw+to+their+full+extent&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhqOelltLfAhXz6OAKHebuBtQQ6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=Men%20are%20often%20capable%20of%20greater%20things%20than%20they%20perform.%20They%20are%20sent%20into%20the%20world%20with%20bills%20of%20credit%2C%20and%20seldom%20draw%20to%20their%20full%20extent&f=false

“He conocido a varias personas de gran fama por su sabiduría en asuntos públicos y concejos gobernados por siervos tontos. He conocido a grandes ministros, distinguidos por su ingenio y saber, que ha sido privilegiados nada más que con las burlas. He conocido a hombres de valor cobardes ante sus esposas. He conocido a hombres astutos perpetuamente engañados. Conocía a tres ministros que calcularían y liquidarían exactamente las cuentas de su propia economía.”

Original: «I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to theirs wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of their own economy».
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 257. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false

“En toda ciencia, el error precede a la verdad, y es mejor que vaya primero que último.”

Original: «In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last».
Fuente: Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors. Autor y compilador Maturin Murray Ballou. Editorial J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Página 151. https://books.google.es/books?id=09M4AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214&dq=The+gratitude+of+place-expectants+is+a+lively+sense+of+future+favors.+Robert+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt29CclNLfAhVUBGMBHfbnAxYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Walpole&f=false

“El misterio, la sabiduría de los mendrugos, puede ser permitido en un ministro de relaciones exteriores.”

Original: «Mystery, the wisdom of blockheads, may be allowable in a foreign minister».
Fuente: 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, Volumen 1. Horace Walpole. Editorial R. Bentley, 1843. Página 12. https://books.google.es/books?id=x5E4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=Mystery+is+the+wisdom+of+blockheads.+Horace+Walpole&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZn-6-ktLfAhVx5eAKHRK0CVsQ6AEITzAF#v=onepage&q=Mystery%20is%20the%20wisdom%20of%20blockheads.%20Horace%20Walpole&f=false

Horace Walpole: Frases en inglés

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)

“When I first came abroad, every thing struck me”

Letter to Richard West, from Rome, 16 April 1740 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t5p84vt55;view=1up;seq=194, p. 42, The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. P. Cunningham, vol. 1
Contexto: ... When I first came abroad, every thing struck me, and I wrote its history; but now I am grown so used to be surprised, that I don't perceive any flutter in myself when I meet with any novelties; curiosity and astonishment wear off, and the next thing is, to fancy that other people know as much of places as one's self; or, at least, one does not remember that they do not. It appears to me as odd to write to you of St. Peter's, as it would do to you to write of Westminster-abbey. Besides, as one looks at churches, &c. with a book of travels in one's hand, and sees every thing particularised there, it would appear transcribing, to write upon the same subjects.

“Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”

Letter to Anne, Countess of Ossory, (16 August 1776)
A favourite saying of Walpole's, it is repeated in other of his letters, and might be derived from a similar statement attributed to Jean de La Bruyère, though unsourced: "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think". An earlier form occurs in another published letter:
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 (31 December 1769)
Variante: The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

“If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary.
The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner-stone of our liberty.”

Notes of 1758, published in Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second (1822), p. 226; also published as "Memoirs of the Year 1758" in Memoirs of King George II, Vol. III (1985), p. 10

“Our supreme governors, the mob.”

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (7 September 1743)

“Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1742)

“It is the story of a mountebank and his zany.”

Statement about Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, as described in Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in a letter to Hon. Henry Conway (6 October 1785)

“Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.”

As quoted in "The Works of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford" in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 27 (1798) edited by Ralph Griffiths, p. 187

“Have done with this rhapsody of impertinence.”

Horace Walpole libro The Castle of Otranto

Section 2
The Castle of Otranto (1764)

“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.”

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1774); this is derived from an proverb of unknown authorship: "A little nonsense now and then / Is relished by the wisest men".

“Thy purpose is as odious as thy resentment is contemptible.”

Horace Walpole libro The Castle of Otranto

Section 3
The Castle of Otranto (1764)

“The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.”

On Scotland, in a etter to Sir Horace Mann (1778); comparable to "It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding", by Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, vol. i. p. 15.

“He was my counsel in affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry.”

On the death of his friend John Chute (1776)
As quoted in The National Trust Magazine, Spring 2011, p. 09

“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

As quoted in "The Works of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford" in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 27 (1798) edited by Ralph Griffiths, p. 187