Profanity Quotes

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

— Richard Pryor

“Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.”

— Anonymous

Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

— Ozzy Osbourne

I prefer profound to profanity

— Melody Minagar

“INSTINCT IS THE ONLY SALVATION TO ALL YOUR PROFANITY”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I am definitely not a fucking toaster.”

— Jim Chaseley

“Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.”

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

— Johnny Carson

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

— Victoria Woodhull

“My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education.”

— Emma Chase

We don't believe that you have to broadcast and use profanity. It shows a lack of a vocabulary really.

— Harry Clay Weaver

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

— Gordie Howe

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

— Spencer W. Kimball

In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure.

— Michael Dapaah

“Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.”

— Tedd Arnold

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

— Ted E. Brewerton

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

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity.…

— Bill Cosby

“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

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

— John Tillotson

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

— Mark Twain

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 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

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

— Betty Smith

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

— Anonymous

“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

“As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking…

— Sarah Royal

I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At…

— Gza

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

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

I remember going to gym class one day and there was all kinds of profanity written all over my gym locker...Just mine.…

— Lady Gaga

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

— Arthur Christiansen

“The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.' Francie…

— Betty Smith

According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn't get him.…

— Anonymous

“Georgie: I feel stupid. Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just walked in here and insulted me for…

— Theresa Rebeck

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It…

— George S. Patton

“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were…

— Betty Smith

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse…

— David Morrell