Quotes About Profanity

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.

I say something bad every day, but I like to swear sparingly because it has more impact.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

My point is this: When I know that the world around me is both the hiding place and the revelation of God, I can no longer make a significant distinction between the natural and the supernatural, between the holy and the profane.

I Need to Learn Many, Many More Cusswords in Sign Language

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Maybe you remember...what a powerful impact the word fuck used to have in our society--back before everybody and thier children started saying it 10 times a day before breakfast

Maybe you remember, Angela, what a powerful impact the word "fuck" used to have in our society—back before everybody and their children started saying it ten times a day before breakfast. Indeed, it was once a very potent word.

English accepts more curses than any other language, and I soon learned to curse with the commoners.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Oh God," I groaned, "Seth Mortensen just said 'fucking' out loud. The end of times are near.

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn't.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail. But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

He wasn't moved by the profanity-laced diatribe, and he saw no reason to reply in kind. He himself didn't cuss, his older brother Noah having told them time and time again that a man who needed to punctuate his point with obscenities really didn't have a point to make.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

Genesis, in fact, is in various ways almost nearer the New Testament than the Old, and some of its topics are barely heard again till their implications can fully emerge in the gospel. The institution of marriage, the fall of man, the jealousy of Cain, the judgment of the flood, the imputed righteousness of the believer, the rival sons of promise and of the flesh, the profanity of Esau, the pilgrim status of God's people, are all predominantly New Testament themes.

repetitive dullness and infantile content of profanity

Walter, when the fucking trousers are dry, if you give me a fucking needle and thread, I will fucking sew the hell out of them.

Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking