Quotes About Profanity
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
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Was you born this fucking dumb, Milly-Fox, or do you practice every Dixieme?
~ Sarah Monette
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Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at least.
~ Scott Lynch
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694.The quickest red card ever given out in soccer history was just three seconds into the match, when player Lee Todd, who played for Chippenham in the U.K., exclaimed, "Eff me, that was loud," after the starting whistle was blown.
~ Scott Matthews
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
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A thistle grows about here which has needles on it that would pierce through leather, I think; if one touches you, you can find relief in nothing but profanity.
~ Mark Twain
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I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
~ Mark Twain
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
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The lieutenant of the youth's company was shot in the hand. He began to swear so wondrously that a nervous laugh went along the regimental line. The officer's profanity sounded conventional. It relieved the tightened senses of the new men. It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home.
~ Stephen Crane
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Thank you for your briefing," said the colonel when I was done. "But I do believe that if you could not say the word 'fuck,' your speeches would be only half as long.
~ Johnny Walker
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use the Lord's name in vain!
~ Jon Scieszka
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Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.
~ Jason Bateman
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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
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Billy is all for the subtle use of profanity, but too much just seems excessive, like saxophone solos in rock songs.
~ Matthew Norman
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You want to play? Ellis yelled. All right, then! I played a lot of video games as a kid, bitches! There! Oliver yelled. That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There! The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.
~ Maureen Johnson
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he had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings.
~ Stephen King
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His proclamation was met with a deafening roar of shouted threats, insults, and colorful profanity.
~ Ernest Cline
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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
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
~ Adam Mansbach
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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
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A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.
~ Bill O'Reilly
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I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
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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
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
~ Richard Pryor
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