Strip majesty of its exteriors (the first and last letters) and it becomes
a jest.
-- Edmund Burke
a jest.
-- Edmund Burke
Related:
- The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the
first to laugh... - edients,
and by parts.
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Edmund... - Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution... - Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan.
We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the... - Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Edmund... - Superstition is a religion of feeble minds.
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Edmund... - He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On Pitt's First Speech... - And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity
they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution... - It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Prior's Life of...
From the same category:
- I am fairly unrepentant about her poetry. I really think that three
quarters of it is gibberish.
However, I must crush down these thoughts otherwise... - You may be redneck...
if your wife doesn't put on shoes to go shopping... - Send in the clowns....Why, Mr. President,
what are you doing here... - The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Alphonse... - Son, always be sincere. Whether you mean it or not.
Michael...
