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Quotes About Profanity

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
~ Dolly Parton
Parrots learn profanity more easily than common phrases since we utter our curses with so much vigor. The parrot doesn't know the meaning of these words, but he hears the energy invested in them. Even animals can pick up on the power we have hidden in the shadow!
~ Robert A. Johnson
Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.
~ Robert Heinlein
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
~ Diana Palmer
There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.
~ Andrew Pyper
I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a lot of profane music.
~ Jabari Parker
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
~ Chris Tucker
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
~ Bill Cosby
I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.
~ Tech N9ne
Devin swears like a sailor with Tourette's?
~ Robert Dugoni
she swore in good mouth-filling oaths, but never smutty ones, and that was uncommon. She knew the prosody of profanity. . . . she knew the tune, as well as the words. She was not a raving beauty, but she had fine eyes and a Pre-Raphelite air of being too good for this world while at the same time exhibiting much of what this world desires in a woman, and I suppose I gaped at her and behaved clownishly.
~ Robertson Davies
Grant explained to Porter his aversion to profanities, saying "swearing helps to rouse a man's anger; and when a man flies into a passion his adversary who keeps cool always gets the better of him."50
~ Ron Chernow
Oh shit! Can you say 'fuck' in a graveyard or will it jinx you with the undead?
~ Libba Bray
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe
In exploring practices dealing with time ... we have encountered other Christian practices at every turn ... "The sabbath cannot live in exile, a lonely stranger among days of profanity ... The sabbath needs the companionship of all the other days (Abraham Joshua Heschel).
~ Dorothy C. Bass
If you are furious, and you've exhausted your reasoned argument but still want to get a powerful emotion across, then you might say, Fuck you. What I object to is the use of these impactful words as fillers, such as when people say, What the fuck are you doing? That's lazy. How is fuck helping that particular sentence
~ Ann Napolitano
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
~ Robert Klein
Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.
~ Roger Stone
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~ George Washington
Antony was neat-fingered and had obviously done this thing many times before, but still indulged in a good deal of cursing and bad language before the new bow and a few arrows were finally done.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe