"There is more pleasure to building castles in……" — Edward Gibbon
"There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground."
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Edward Gibbon
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon has 95 quotes on this site.
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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More Air Quotes
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one of 4,448 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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