Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Weitere Zitate von Edmund Burke
Zum Autor"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
"Custom reconciles us to everything."
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."