Quotes By Edward Gibbon

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

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

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

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.