661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated people are but ordinary observers of things, and not critical in distinguishing them; but, for that reason, they admire more, and are more affected with what they see, and therefore express themselves in a warmer and more passionate manner.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.