Quotes by Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

British historian

Lived from: 1737 - 1794

Category: History and sociology Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 8 may 1737 Died: 16 january 1794

  • We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

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  • A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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  • All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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  • Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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  • Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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  • Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
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  • Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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  • History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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  • I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
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  • I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
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  • 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.
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  • I was never less alone than when by myself.
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  • 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.
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  • My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
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  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
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  • Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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  • Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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  • Style is the image of character.
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  • 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.
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  • The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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  • The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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What are the most famous quotes from Edward Gibbon?

The two most famous quotes from Edward Gibbon are:

  • "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
  • "All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."

When did Edward Gibbon live?

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737 and died in the year 1794.