Edmund Burke Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  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.353

• As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

  Edmund Burke

  Way, Talent, Failing

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.607

• Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Talent, Revolt

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.158

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