Quotes Edward Gibbon

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execut...

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance....

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except b...

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind th...

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, exc...

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the...

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional li...

Every man who rises above the common level has received two ...

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity....

History is indeed little more than the register of the crime...

History is little more than the register of the crimes, foll...

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition....

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses...

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose op...

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son....

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship...

I was never less alone than when by myself....

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a...

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to ...

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange...

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are l...

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are l...

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in t...

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery....

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities....