Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. – Edmund Burke
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. – Edmund Burke
It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man