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Quotes About Profanity

In one scene she says fuck.
~ David Foster Wallace
You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!
~ William Shakespeare
coprolalia.
~ Woody Allen
Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
~ Coleman Young
if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.
~ Unknown
'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood.
~ David Fahrenthold
Holy shit," he said. "Oh, my God, holy shit." "Vince," I said, irritated because he had interrupted the first happy thoughts I'd had in days. "In traditional Western culture, we like to separate deity and feces." He
~ Jeff Lindsay
I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa," Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words.
~ Jess Walter
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
~ Bill Cosby
The Romanians really do lead the world when it comes to cursing.
~ David Sedaris
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
~ Unknown
The only occasion on film when a profanity passed from her lips, in fact, came in Two for the Road, when she twice accused Albert Finney of being a bastard. Its impact was all the greater because it was completely at odds with the 'decent' Audrey Hepburn image.
~ Unknown
Before I'd touch a square bitch's slit, I'd suck a thousand clappy pricks and swim through liquid shit, They got green puke between their rotten toes, And snot runs from their funky nose, I hope square bitches become syphilitic wrecks, I hope they fall through their own assholes and break their motherfucking necks.
~ Iceberg Slim
The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20
~ Craig Shirley
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
~ D. H. Lawrence
She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.
~ Vincent Price
Jules Winnfield: ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!? Samuel L. Jackson
~ Quentin Tarantino
I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.
~ Dean Koontz
Now, then. What does 'fucking' mean?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Bloody fucking Ian Murray. Fucking Scot and sometime Mohawk.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.
~ Irvine Welsh
Like the rest of the Québécois? Like Beauvoir himself? Did they curse the Church? Câlice! Tabernac! Hostie! The Québécois had turned religious words into dirty words.
~ Louise Penny