Edward Gibbon Quotes
Most popular Edward Gibbon Quotes
![Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/61/21561A-revenge-is-profitable-gratitude-is-expensive-edward-gibbon.png)
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
![A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/53/2553A-a-false-modesty-is-the-meanest-species-pride-edward-gibbon.png)
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
![The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/05/38605A-the-use-of-our-reading-is-aid-us-thinking-edward-gibbon.png)
The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking.
![Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/94/50494A-our-work-is-the-presentation-of-our-capabilities-edward-gibbon.png)
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
![Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/21/35921A-our-sympathy-is-cold-to-the-relation-distant-misery-edward-gibbon.png)
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
![All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/75/7875A-all-that-is-human-must-retrograde-if-it-does-not-edward-gibbon.png)
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
![The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/02/14102A-the-winds-and-waves-are-always-side-ablest-navigators-edward-gibbon.png)
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
![The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/37/10137A-the-winds-and-the-waves-are-always-side-ablest-navigators-edward-gibbon.png)
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
![Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/15/28615A-conversation-enriches-the-understanding-but-solitude-is-school-genius-edward-gibbon.png)
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
![I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/57/20157A-i-have-but-one-lamp-by-which-my-feet-are-edward-gibbon.png)
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
![Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment', the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/58/18958A-whenever-the-offence-inspires-less-horror-than-punishment-rigour-penal-edward-gibbon.png)
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment', the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
![The love of study, a passion which derives great vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual round of independent and rational pleasure. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/03/5703A-the-love-of-study-a-passion-which-derives-great-vigor-edward-gibbon.png)
The love of study, a passion which derives great vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual round of independent and rational pleasure.
![The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking. The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/88/27188A-the-use-of-our-reading-is-aid-us-thinking-perusal-edward-gibbon.png)
The use of our reading is to aid us in thinking. The perusal of a particular work gives birth, perhaps, to ideas unconnected with the subject of which it treats.
![It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, 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. - Edward Gibbon quote.](/img/q/90/42590A-it-has-always-been-my-practice-cast-long-paragraph-single-edward-gibbon.png)
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, 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.