Burke Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words burke and/or wrote:

    Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    I loved, but woman fell away;
    I hid me from her faded fame.
    I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
    And wrote till earth was but a name.
    John Clare (1793–1864)