Quotes by Burke, Edmund

Ambition can creep as well as soar. >>

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a d >>

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. >>

Quotations about Malice

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- t >>

Malice is only another name for mediocrity. >>

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and o >>

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

Burke, Edmund