Quotes by Gibbon, Edward

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mo >>

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has >>

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. >>

Quotations about Obscenity

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life.. >>

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuf >>

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishmen >>

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

Gibbon, Edward