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Quotes About Profanity

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.
~ Kel Mitchell
I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.
~ Philip Palmer
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 said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'
~ Kym Whitley
I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
~ Preston and Child
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.
~ Trent Reznor
He opened the first letter, No Dear Mr. Woods. It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.
~ Randy Alcorn
That's not a bad word... hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
~ Judy Blume
Occasionally one meets a Mormon with the knack of putting swear-words together, and sometimes one encounters a speck of interestingly-local profanity in the milk of Mormon human-kindness. I have not heard elsewhere the typical Mormon "I'll be go to Hell," and I have never found even in learned treatises the characteristic "Bear's Ass!" with which a native of Cache Valley expresses disgust.
~ Wallace Stegner
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
~ Danny Aiello
Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate fuckheads.
~ James Carlos Blake
So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.' Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, The Naked and the Dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
He tailed off into furious profanity.
~ Agatha Christie
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
~ Bill Cosby
All persons on my vessel of war being guilty of profane oaths, cursings or other scandalous actions are in good company with the author.
~ Julia Golding
Th' poxy, slivey, cuntbitten shicers!
~ Julian Stockwin
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
~ Robert Lowth
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
~ Mark Twain
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.
~ Wesley Willis
did someone drop the f bomb
~ david knott
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
~ W. C. Fields
My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
~ John Cleese
But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.
~ Edward Albee
I can swear like a fishwife.
~ Frances Bay