Profanity Quotes · Page 3

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

— Diana Palmer

I speak 4 languages: English, Profanity, Sarcasm, and Real shit.

— Anonymous

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

— Franz Grillparzer

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

— Rod Serling

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

— George Orwell

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

— Richard Pryor

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

— Lenny Bruce

“I sit here thinking it over for several minutes before I come to the conclusion that I have just been word-slapped by…

— J.A. Huss

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

When a man uses profanity to support an argument, it indicates that either the man or the argument is weak - probably…

— Anonymous

“Yes, I went to Catholic school. You’re surprised? You shouldn’t be. My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be…

— Emma Chase

I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the…

— John Wooden

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic…

— Peter Carey

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

— Wesley Willis

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is…

— Anonymous

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when…

— Arthur Christiansen

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and…

— J. R. Moehringer

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal…

— Marilyn Manson

To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer…

— L. Tom Perry

I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up…

— Chris Tucker

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he…

— Kym Whitley

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

— Patricia Briggs

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

— Antoine R. Ivins

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

— Robert McKee

“Don’t be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.”

— Andrew Pyper

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

— Mark Twain

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

— Kirby Larson

“With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art—a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations.”

— Franklin J. Meine

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

— William Shakespeare

“-Shut the FUCK UP, said Jesus. [ The New Statesman , 3 July 1998]”

— T.A. Keizer

“Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.”

— David Keuck

I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

— Bill Cosby

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

— Bill Cosby

With a woman around, there's a tendency to eliminate vulgarity and profanity and create a more businesslike attitude.

— Lee Corso

My 2016 New Year's resolution is basically to stop using profanity.

— Farrah Abraham

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

— John Wooden