profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something. — Mary McGarry Morris Copy Share Image
“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded” — Terry Fallis Copy Share Image
“Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.” — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
“Hate that Warner is probably right, that profanity is probably a failure of the mind, that only idiots need to rely on… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Oooo...He's being a saucy motherfu*ker tonight. He does wrong and I'm the one who gets treated like the whore of Babylon. Fine,… — S.K. Logsdon Copy Share Image
Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking… — Sarah Royal Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't believe that you have to broadcast and use profanity. It shows a lack of a vocabulary really. — Harry Clay Weaver Copy Share Image
“My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education.” — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.” — Tedd Arnold Copy Share Image
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure. — Michael Dapaah Copy Share Image
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly. — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity. — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
