Edward Gibbon Quotes

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.

Edward Gibbon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

Topics

BestPerformanceJudgeOwnEvent

I'm quite glad about having a few craggy edges to myself.

Jessie Buckley

MyselfGladEdgesQuiteFewAbout

One cannot have economic growth without security.

John Bruton

GrowthSecurityEconomic Growth

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

PoetryResultsFastWhyExpectPoem

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

Jennifer Dunn

FamilyDeathGenerationResultTax

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

John Oliver

AngryMemoryPeopleBlurYouKind

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

Robert Rinder

FreedomDemocracyDetailRestUs

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Jameson

LoveArtPoetryWeatherPhilosophy

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Anna Netrebko

I AmCareLongStageEverythingAm

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

JobBrainStartKeyLearnYou

Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.

Logan Green

StepThinkingDownAlwaysLineBeen

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Jason Statham

ChanceInsuranceYouPersonalMore

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

Jon Hamm

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