661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue

You can never plan the future by the past.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

Custom reconciles us to everything.