Profanity Quotes · Page 3

“Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.”

— Jacqueline Patricks

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

— George Carlin

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

— Philip Sidney

“Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass.”

— Junnita Jackson

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

— John Wooden

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

— Dee Snider

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

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

“Hate that Warner is probably right, that profanity is probably a failure of the mind, that only idiots need to rely on…

— Tahereh Mafi

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal…

— Jonathan Swift

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever…

— William Shakespeare

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

Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate…

— Simone Elkeles

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

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings,…

— Geoffrey Perret

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

“Some producer actually told Franny that profanity revealed a poor vocabulary and a lack of imagination. And Frank and Lilly and Father…

— John Irving

There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to…

— Jamel Shabazz

Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ...…

— George Q. Cannon

Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not…

— Joseph Addison

“Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted…

— Tamora Pierce

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

— Liz Phair

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

— Randall Dale Adams

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

— Chris Tucker

“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”

— Owen Wister

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Bill Cosby

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." [ Mark Twain, a Biography ]”

— Mark Twain

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

— John Wooden

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

— Farrah Abraham

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

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

— Anonymous

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

— Robert McKee

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

— Mark Twain

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