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Edward Gibbon Quotes

English - Historian | April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

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

Love Reading Early India Invincible

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.

Best Performance Judge Own Event

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Sympathy Cold Misery Our Distant

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

True Probability Laws General

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Corruption Liberty Most Infallible

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Alone Myself Never Than Less

Style is the image of character.

Character Style Image

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

Style Mind Fruit Language Choice

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

School Solitude Genius Understanding

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

Beauty Gift Been Whom Seldom Those

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

Language Left English Decent Text

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom Poverty Possessions Desires

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