Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.


letter to William Smith, 29 January 1795, in The Correspondence of Edmund Burke vol. 8 (1969)

Edmund Burke Quotes

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.