Birth Quote by Edward Gibbon

The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the…

— Edward Gibbon

Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life…

— Edward Gibbon

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by…

— Edward Gibbon

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

— Mark Twain

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that…

— Seth Shostak

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

“Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

“She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

— Antonio Porchia

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”

— Terrance Dicks