Hugh Walpole Quotes

#1. [A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Hugh Walpole

#2. A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Hugh Walpole

#3. Don't play for safety

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#4. The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

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#5. Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.

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#6. Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

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#7. Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

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#8. Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

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#9. Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

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#10. I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

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#11. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, Lie down.

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#12. In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole