Swearing Quotes · Page 3

“Swearing increased pain tolerance, increased heart rate and decreased perceived pain compared with not swearing.”

— Anonymous

“Criticism, like swearing, is actually nothing more than a bad habit.”

— Richard Carlson

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

— Phyllis Bottome

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.

— Bruce Lansky

“Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic — indeed, it is a species of magic.”

— George Orwell

Swearing is unattractive. I'm not attractive anyway so fuck off.

— Paperjam

“Shut the eff up,' Aaron said. Only he said the REAL swear, the REAL word.”

— Carol Lynch Williams

“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing." These is my words”

— Nancey E. Turner

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words.…

— Tony Hale

I am going to be using Ronald Reagan's Bible [during swearing-in]. But I'm also going to be using one of our personal…

— Mike Pence

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the…

— John Ruskin

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel…

— Laurence Sterne

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them…

— John Ratzenberger

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum…

— Quintilian

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If…

— Ernest Hemingway

Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in…

— Maria Semple

Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our…

— Judy LaMarsh

All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an…

— Mitch Hedberg

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, and kissing a lot. I…

— ME And Anonymous

Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't…

— Gary Gulman

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's…

— Dick Enberg

When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and…

— Nancy Pelosi

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

— Jack London

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

— Zach Galifianakis

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

— Gillian Jacobs

“I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit.”

— Raymond Carver

I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

— Frances McDormand

“Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.”

— Mark Jackman

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

— Mark Twain

“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would…

— Richard Llewellyn

“That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”

— William Shakespeare

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

— Lando Norris

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

“I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.”

— Dean Koontz

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

— Harold Pinter

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

— Alexander Pope

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

— Tommy Lasorda

“If a situation requires swearing to God it is — by definition — extreme.”

— Pam Houston