Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon quote Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon quote Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon quote The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Edward Gibbon quote I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon quote It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon quote I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon quote I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
Edward Gibbon quote Biography
Lived 1737 - 1794, English historian
