Swearing Quotes

279 quotes from 228 authors

A daughter looks over her shoulder at code and asks, "What is that, swearing?" The quotes show swearing can appear in legal statements, classroom jokes, or heated arguments, often shaping how angry or playful a speaker sounds. They also reveal how families and schools try to teach attitudes about profanity.

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Swearing is a moral hazard.

Pk Shaw

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Swearing when in heavy traffic.

Paulo Coelho

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“Fuck a zombie!”

Charlaine Harris

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Cussing ain't for everybody.

Eazy-E

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My mom was really good at swearing growing up.

Alaska

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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

William Shakespeare

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I just like swearing and being cheeky.

Gail Bradbrook

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I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

Brian Wilson

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Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

David Crystal

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Swearing is like making a promiss which one has to keep.

Kevin Symphorien

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I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.

Fanny Brice

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Modi invite me for his swearing in ceremony and I did attend it.

Suresh Gopi

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Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

Bubba Smith

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There are ways of swearing that express all of your love and emotions.

Brett Goldstein

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I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing…

Horace Annesley Vachell

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Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Coleman Young

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Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Mary Collyer

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Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

Dave Itzkoff

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There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

Liev Schreiber

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“Fucking hell. Shit, sorry. I keep swearing—” “If you’re calling that swearing, Mum will teach you to do it proper,” Riley drawled.…

Rhys Ford

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“Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse…

Coleman Young

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In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other…

Bill Keller

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Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this…

Elayne Boosler

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“But you'll come and get me if he wakes up, won't you? Just make something up. Scream out like I've done something…

Markus Zusak

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“I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use…

Jerome Lawrence

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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what…

Abraham Lincoln

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When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss…

Raftaar

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The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army…

George Washington

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

Betty Smith

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“There are at least five swear words I like better than fuck. My favorites are compound words like apeshit, craphat or batshit,…

Renée Carlino

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Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages…

Louise Burfitt-Dons