Profanity Quotes · Page 4

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

— Andrew Pyper

When you open your mouth, choose profound over profanity, because profanity never inspired change.

— Melody Minagar

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

— Lenny Bruce

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

— Antoine R. Ivins

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

— Tommy Lasorda

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Mark Twain

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a…

— Anita Baker

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit.…

— David Sedaris

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are…

— Bill Cosby

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could…

— Orson Scott Card

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of…

— Ben Horowitz

Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made…

— Trent Reznor

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go…

— Sufjan Stevens

I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard…

— Franklyn Ajaye

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

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity…

— Vincent Price

“I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that…

— Anonymous

'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into…

— David Fahrenthold

“You soft-skulled, marbel-balled motherf*cker. I´m going to kick your ass next time I see it.” Cam laughed. “You know, my grandmother always…

— Rachel Vincent

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like…

— Simon Sinek

Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that…

— Edmund White

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

— David Keuck

Through the words of profanity I describe our dysfunctional family

— Papa Roach

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

— T.A. Keizer

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— George Orwell

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

— Rod Serling

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Franz Grillparzer

I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

— David Rees

“It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.”

— Lemony Snicket

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

— Diana Palmer

“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

— Robert Klein

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

— Tech N9ne

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

— Anonymous

...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

— Lilian Jackson Braun