Reference > Quotations > John Bartlett, comp. > Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. > 4437. Edmund Burke
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX
John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4437
AUTHOR:Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
QUOTATION:I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Letter to Matthew Smith.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Family vault of “all the Capulets.”—Reflections on the Revolution in France, vol. iii. p. 349. [back]
 

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com