Affectionate Quote by Edward Gibbon

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great…

— Herman Melville

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in…

— Plutarch

“He was a descendant from the younger branch of an illustrious family, and it was designed, that the deficiency of his patrimonial wealth should…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and…

— Plutarch

The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their diocese enjoyed…

— Edward Gibbon

“subjects nicknamed him Epumanes – the Madman. But there was method in his madness for he hoped to bind his empire together around the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose…

— Edward Gibbon

“The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated…

— Yukio Mishima

“fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than…

— William Shakespeare

“He divided the inhabitants of this world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was a horrible…

— Thornton Wilder

“He admitted but four elementary principles, or more strictly, conditions of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the simple and…

— Edgar Allan Poe