Here is a collection of Edward Gibbon quotes:
(1) Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
(2) History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
(3) I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
(4) The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
(5) Style is the image of character.
(6) My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
(7) 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.
(8) Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
(9) Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
(10) 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.
(11) The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
(12) Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
(1) Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
(2) History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
(3) I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
(4) The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
(5) Style is the image of character.
(6) My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
(7) 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.
(8) Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
(9) Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
(10) 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.
(11) The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
(12) Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.