Edward Gibbon's Quote - My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in

Quote by Edward Gibbon

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

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon

Category:

Author

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. – Edward Gibbon

Category:

Author

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

Category:

Author

Other Quotes from

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

category

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. Ive been known to use the f word. – Helena Bonham Carter

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. – William Cowper

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope

Category:

Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Random Quotes

Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness. – Terri Guillemets

Category:

Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Category:

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. – Will Durant

Category:

The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

Category: