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