Horace Walpole

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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival.

A British writer, he is best known for The Castle of Otranto (1765), the first Gothic horror novel. F

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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
- Letter to Willam Cole (May 28, 1774)

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, - at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
- Letter to Thomas Walpole (Feb.19, 1785)

The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
- Letter to Horace Mann (Dec.31, 1769)

Allen of Bath procured them the same honours from thence; and for some weeks it rained gold boxes: Chester, Worcester, Norwich, Bedford, Salisbury, Yarmouth, Tewkesbury, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stirling, and other populous and chief towns following the example. Exeter, with singular affection, sent boxes of heart of oak.
- The sending of boxes to William Pitt in 1757 (Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George II (London, 1846-47), II, p. 202.)

Instead of the glorious and ever-memorable year 1759, as the newspapers call it, I call it this ever-warm and victorious year. We have not had more conquest than than fine weather: one would think we had plundered East and West Indies of sunshine. Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories. I believe it will require ten votes of the House of Commons before people believe it is the Duke of Devonshire that has done this, and not Mr. Pitt.
- Letter to George Montagu (October 21, 1759)

My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society—I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
- Memoirs from the Declaration of the War with Spain (1746)

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