Quote by Edward Gibbon
Style is the image of character. - Edward Gibbon

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon

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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. – Edward Gibbon

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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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Taste is the feminine of genius. – Lord Edward Fitzgerald

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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. – Coco Chanel

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs

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I never work just to work. Its some combination of laziness and self-respect. – Harold Ramis

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He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. – Thomas Fuller

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy

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