Expletives Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages, is best…

— John Godey

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

— Owen Wister

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless.”

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they…

— Bill Granger

“Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.”

— Elizabeth Smart

“I really need to break him of the bad language habit he’s developing at a rapid pace, but who am I to talk? I…

— Monica Murphy

“He laughingly expressed his surprise at having provoked such anger. Perhaps he said this in the hope of minimising in my eyes the importance…

— Marcel Proust

“As he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted at you to make…

— Jodie Picoult