A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six… — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so… — Barry Trotz Copy Share Image
We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I swear over everything from being woken up in the middle of the night to realizing I’ve left the wet clothes in… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages,… — John Godey Copy Share Image
I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
OTT platforms have opened up a whole new area to explore in terms of content, writing, acting, everything. But I'm not really… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth - mind, this is strictly between ourselves, please; I shouldn't like your wife to know I said… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
> CracKing: No need to yell. > FtLouie: I’m not yelling!!! > CracKing: You’re using excessive amounts of punctuation, and on-line, that’s… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man,… — Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence Copy Share Image
I hate hearing kid's swear, I mean nigga you still wetting your bed and playing with doll's and now you swearing oh… — Bella Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
“Now, do you agree thus far? if not, it is no use arguing; we must come to swearing, and I am convinced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“There are no dirty words in this book, except for 'hell' and 'God', in case someone is fearing that an innocent child… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“She hit us,” the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
“the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning;… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Finally, a bit of luck. Rat bastard,' I hissed down at Montmartre. 'Mangy dog of a scurvy goat.' 'That doesn’t even make… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image