Profane Quotes · Page 5

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is…

— Vincent of Lerins

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,…

— Bella Abzug

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…

— Mircea Eliade

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to…

— Hippocrates

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for…

— Max Anders

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,…

— Pope Pius IV

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

— St. Jerome

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but…

— Emily Post

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of…

— Frank Schaeffer

But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the…

— Adolf Hitler

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

— Robert Lowth

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only…

— Samuel Johnson

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man.…

— Anonymous

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not…

— Thomas Paine

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man…

— George Washington

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

— Ludwig Feuerbach

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not…

— John Milton

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

— Paulo Coelho

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

— Stephen Fry

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet…

— Robert Burns

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

— Robert L. Millet