Life Quotes by Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

— Edmund Burke

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

— Edmund Burke

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

— Edmund Burke

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

— Edmund Burke

“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.”

— Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

— Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

— Edmund Burke

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

— Edmund Burke

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet…

— Edmund Burke

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects.…

— Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that…

— Edmund Burke

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no…

— Edmund Burke

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so…

— Edmund Burke

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,…

— Edmund Burke

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the…

— Edmund Burke

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state…

— Edmund Burke

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned…

— Edmund Burke

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness…

— Edmund Burke

“The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a…

— Edmund Burke

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never…

— Edmund Burke

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of…

— Edmund Burke