Edward Gibbon - Language Quotes

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The division of Europe into a number of independent states connected, however, with each other, by the general resemblance of religion, language, and manners, is productive of the most beneficial consequences to the liberty of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

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

Edward Gibbon

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

The difference of language, dress, and manners... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Edward Gibbon

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language...

Edward Gibbon

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Edward Gibbon