(Of London) Crowds without company, dissipation without pleasure
Edward Gibbon quote We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon quote Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon quote Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward Gibbon quote The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon quote The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
Edward Gibbon quote The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon quote The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon quote Biography
Lived 1737 - 1794, English historian
