Logo
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

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
War
Author
Edward Gibbon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
category

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse

Category:
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell

Category:
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Random Quotes

Its a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so Ive never had any trouble identifying with the character that Im playing. – Jack Nicholson

Category:
Imagination

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. – Elliot Richardson

Category:
Failure

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them. – Allen Klein

Category:
Experience

The best way out of a difficulty is through it. – Will Rogers

Category:
best