Edmund Burke Quotes About Manners

• Los modales son más importantes que las leyes. Los modales son los que nos irritan o nos calman, nos corrompen o nos purifican, nos exaltan o nos degradan, nos barbarizan o nos refinan, mediante una operación constante, constante, uniforme e insensible, como la del aire que respiramos.

  Edmund Burke

  Aire, Derecho, Uniformes

  "Tres cartas a un diputado sobre las propuestas de paz con el Directorio Regicida de Francia" (1796 - 1797)

• Nuestros modales, nuestra civilización, y todas las cosas buenas relacionadas con los modales y la civilización, han dependido durante siglos, en este mundo europeo nuestro, de dos principios: Me refiero al espíritu de un caballero, y el espíritu de la religión.

  Edmund Burke

  Media, Civilización, Dos

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Autor de "Satanás".) (1853). "Edmund Burke: siendo los primeros principios seleccionados de sus escritos. Con un ensayo introductorio de Robert Montgomery", p.127

• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Lovely, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

  Edmund Burke

  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

• La más importante de todas las revoluciones, una revolución de los sentimientos, las costumbres y las opiniones morales.

  Edmund Burke

  Important, Revolution, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.119

• It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Reality, Skills, Way

• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

  Edmund Burke

  Rude, Benefits, Fierce

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

• Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Men, Understanding

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