Horace Walpole Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Shakespeare 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 Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

• One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed,
  Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

  Horace Walpole

  Genius, Taste, Wanted

  Letter to Wren, 9 August 1764, in 'Letters'

• That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

  Horace Walpole

  Religion, Genius, Lines

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