You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire… — Marilyn Manson 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
In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around. — George Carlin 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
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
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. — Franz Grillparzer 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
“Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.” — Jacqueline Patricks Copy Share Image
My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image