"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting…" — Edmund Burke

More Affecting Quotes

This quote is filed under Affecting Quotes, one of 179 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of… — Ansel Adams
• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the… — Felix Adler
• In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh
• I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. — Helena Bonham Carter
• A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my… — JWoww
• It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in… — John Wooden
• If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do… — Garry McCarthy
• The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen… — James Madison
• Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be… — Mortimer Adler
• We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we… — Melinda Gates
• The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put… — Peter Costello

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