Quotes by Gibbon, Edward

Style is the image of character. >>

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. >>

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the >>

Quotations about Detail

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. >>

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with >>

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by th >>

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Gibbon, Edward