Quote

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Edmund Burke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Beauty
Even
Fragility
Delicacy
Appearance
Essential
Essentials
Almost

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
Edmund Burke
Image
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
Image
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
Edmund Burke
Image
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
Edmund Burke
Image
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
Edmund Burke
Image
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Edmund Burke
Image
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
Edmund Burke
Image
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
Image
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
Image
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Edmund Burke
Image
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
Edmund Burke
Image
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
Image
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
Edmund Burke
Image
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
Edmund Burke
Image
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke
Image
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
Image
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Edmund Burke
Image
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
Edmund Burke