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Quotes About Profanity

Some producer actually told Franny that profanity revealed a poor vocabulary and a lack of imagination. And Frank and Lilly and Father and I all loved to shout at Franny, then, and ask her what she had said to that. 'What an anal crock of shit, you dumb asshole!' she'd told the producer. 'Up yours - and in your ear, too!
~ John Irving
Shit! Those sons a bitches Russians!
~ Mal Peet
And [she] proceeded to insult ... anyone she happened to remember at the moment, with such power and originality that the soldiers listened in wonder to vituperation that transcended their wildest dream of profanity and filth.
~ Mariano Azuela
It has always stood for f***ing great food.
~ Gordon Ramsay
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
~ Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
~ Patrick Carman
The American president is a motherfucker.
~ Matt Haig
As a group, United States Marines were world-class profanity users,
~ Unknown
The tremendous judgments of God, executed on those that are daringly profane and atheistical, are intended as warnings to those who profess religion to take heed of every thing that has the least appearance of, or tendency towards, profaneness or atheism. Even
~ Matthew Henry
Fuck!" he said, the purity and forcefulness of the profanity cleansing in its simplicity. Fuck. Odd, he thought, how the word considered the most unutterable should be the one that represented, for many, the greatest pleasure of which the human body was capable. The sacred and the profane, he supposed, the ultimate proof of the perversity of human nature, to make a curse of the very act that kept the species in existence.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, shit. Needle out, piss. Needle in, fuck. Needle out, cunt. Until we were easy with the words.
~ Nancy Milford
One of the first things Vincent explained to Norma was that there was a certain freedom of language in the Village that mustn't shock her. It wasn't vulgar. 'So we sat darning socks on Waverly Place and practiced the use of profanity as we stitched. Needle in, . Needle out, piss. Needle in, . Needle out, c. Until we were easy with the words.
~ Nancy Milford
How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.
~ Nick Hornby
He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.
~ Owen Wister
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
~ Patrick Carman
Son of a bitch," I said, too stunned for proper profanity. "I've always figured him for porcine parentage myself," Wilem said dryly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Kist, crayle, en kote," he swore furiously. He threw down the metal tube where it rang sharply against the stone floor. "Kraemet brevetan Aerin!" I fought down the sudden urge to laugh. My Siaru wasn't perfect, but I was fairly certain Kilvin had said, Shit in God's beard.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
~ Leviticus 18:21
Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
~ Leviticus 19:8
The priests must not profane the sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD
~ Leviticus 22:15
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
~ Nehemiah 13:17
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ëWho is the LORD?í Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
~ Proverbs 30:9
I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
~ Ezekiel 7:22