"An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is……" — Edmund Burke
"An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty."
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340 Quotes by Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke has 340 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for…
- Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- You can never plan the future by the past.
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he…
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a…
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