Don’t be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you…

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or…

— Simon Sinek

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”

— Lenny Bruce

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed…

— Danny Aiello

“... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.”

— Theresa Romain

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And…

— Jennifer Donnelly

Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use…

— Edmund White

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

— Mark Twain

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always…

— Wesley Willis

I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan,…

— Franklyn Ajaye

I prefer profound to profanity

— Melody Minagar

“She hit us,” the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began with “F,”…

— Patricia Briggs

No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is…

— David O. McKay

If you're trying to get your point across using profanity, hurtful words, and violence, you're not getting your point across at all. Period.

— Anonymous

“There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child might see…

— Kurt Vonnegut