A Quote by Edward Gibbon

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Edward Gibbon

Quote Topics

Appearance Appetite Disgusting Equally Gigantic Hairy Joy Manners North Rustic Savages Sight Smell Voracious

Quote Author

Edward Gibbon
English - Historian
April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

John Lothrop Motley

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

Jules Verne

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Wanda Koop

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

Jimmy Page

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Aldous Huxley

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.

Warren G. Bennis

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

K. A. Applegate

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

Hartley Coleridge

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Henry Fielding

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Jewel

We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked Rome.Fear only feeble old age and death in bed.Don't forget who you are.

Janet Fitch

By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

Muhammad Asad

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Amy Grant

There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.