Edward Gibbon Quotes


I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.


Citations

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life and Writings. A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1796, p. 77.

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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
  • Born: May 8, 1737
  • Died: January 16, 1794
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Historian

Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.