Category: Edward Gibbon

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
-Edward Gibbon

“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

“The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.”
-Edward Gibbon

“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.”
-Edward Gibbon

“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
-Edward Gibbon

“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
-Edward Gibbon