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Aaron Burr Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Miss Mallet. The most rational being I have seen. Staid a whole hour, and greatly pleased with her. Good breeding and social talents in a degree very rare. Why don't I go there oftener? Because I do nothing that I wish or intend.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Rational, Good Breeding, Dating
“A bed with very dirty sheets, to which I objected ; but the maid assured me, upon her honour, that they were very clean, and that she put them on herself. So I am bound to think them clean ; but shall, nevertheless, not undress.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Dirty Sheets
“I found her dressed superbly and with much taste. We played chess. I won. She played me some airs quite prettily on the harp.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Dating, Harp, Chess
“The day, yesterday, was fine spring weather. The atmosphere tolerably clear. I rode outside to enjoy the beauty of the scenery.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Springtime, Clear Skies, scenery
“Went to bed last night full of penitence and contrition and promising you any number of times that I would never do so again.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Penitence, Contrition
“There must be something narcotic in the air of this island. I have slept more during my six months' residence in Great Britain than in any preceding three years of my life since the age of 14.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Great Britain, Narcotic, Air
“For the last forty or fifty miles we had on board a strange, vulgar-looking fellow, who had been all over the world; spoke Latin, French, and Spanish; and in the course of three hours told me more than a hundred lies; probably some itinerant Irish schoolmaster.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: strange, Vulgar, Anti-Irish, latin, french, spanish, Lies
“Everything wears out; you will wear out.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Fatigue, Worn Out
“Men are fit to educate nothing but horses and dogs.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Men, Fitness, Education, horses, Dogs
“How easily one receives advice when it concurs with one's wishes!”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Advice
“It is vain to desire them to knock; they do not comprehend you and if they do, pay no manner of attention to it. It took me six weeks to teach my old Anna not to come in without knocking and leave and finally it was only by appearing to get into a most violent passion and threatening to blow out her brains, which she had not the least doubt I would do without ceremony.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Blow Out Your Brains, Knocking, violent, Passion
“Before I had been half an hour home the toothache returned with all its violence. I resolved to have it out early in the morning; but how to get through the night was the first question. The application of pepper and brandy occurred to me. I applied it, and was relieved in ten minutes; but still there is a growling and menacing which alarms me. The opium, too, has brought on a headache.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Toothache, Violence, Pepper and Brandy, Opium, Headache
“The Conduct of some individuals of the Treaty Majority has disappointed me a good deal. That of the executive something also, but much less. From the insidious professions Which were made in Feby. and March I had been led to hope that a more temperate System would have been adopted. All such expectations are now abandoned. The gauntlet I see is thrown and the fruit of our War with Britain is again in Jeopardy.”
— Aaron Burr, Founders Online: To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Burr, 21 June 1797
Tagged: War, Negotiations, Gauntlet, War with Britain, Treaty
“This house is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; it is here-it is here in this exalted refuge-here, if anywhere, will be resistance made to the storms of political frenzy and the silent arts of corruption. And if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor.”
— Aaron Burr
Tagged: Constitution, Liberty, Sacrilege, Farewell Speech
“As I was writing the concluding line of the preceding page last evening (about I o'clock) an ill-looking fellow opened my door without knocking, and muttering in German something which I did not comprehend, bid me put out my candle. Being in no very placid humor at the moment, as you see, I cursed him and sent him to hell in French and English. He advanced and was going to seize the candle. My umbrella, which had a dirk in the handle, being near me, I seized it, drew the dirk, and drove him out of the room.”
— Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
Tagged: Knives, German, french, english
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