Love Quotes by Edward Gibbon

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

— Edward Gibbon

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Edward Gibbon

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

— Edward Gibbon

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”

— Edward Gibbon

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of…

— Edward Gibbon

As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full…

— Edward Gibbon

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of…

— Edward Gibbon

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice…

— Edward Gibbon

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and…

— Edward Gibbon

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the…

— Edward Gibbon

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent…

— Edward Gibbon

To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most…

— Edward Gibbon

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war…

— Edward Gibbon

The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed…

— Edward Gibbon

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less…

— Edward Gibbon

“The uncommon abilities and fortune of Severus have induced an elegant historian to compare him with the first and greatest of the…

— Edward Gibbon