30 Quotations by Edward Gibbon
- 1. A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
- 2. All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
- 3. Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
- 4. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
- 5. Corruption: the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
- 6. Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
- 7. History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of man ...
- 8. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- 9. I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
- 10. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way o ...
- 11. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
- 12. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a ...
- 13. I was never less alone than when by myself.
- 14. It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d ...
- 15. My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
- 16. My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned langua ...
- 17. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- 18. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
- 19. Style is the image of character.
- 20. The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub ...
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