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Edmund Burke Quotes about Beauty

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.176