Edward Gibbon Quotes & Quotations

Edward Gibbon Quotes

» The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

» A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

» I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

» The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

» Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

» Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

» Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

» My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

» 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.

» The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

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