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Quotes About Profanity

When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
words are merely loose gravel until glued together by the mortar of obscenity.
~ Gardner Dozois
Oaths, blasphemies, and one recurring four-letter word filled the air like fog.
~ Herman Wouk
Do you want me crucified for my profanity?
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Corporal Clasp crawled up beside him. 'That's one of those Fuckeral's, isn't it?
~ Steven Erikson
Emily swore and he was impressed; he'd never thought to string cocksuckingsonofabitch together in one sentence. He couldn't help himself; the snort of laughter escaped before he could hold it in.
~ C.H. Admirand
blasphemer Kweethul the Vile!
~ C.L. Werner
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I'd never been fond of gratuitous cursing. I figured it was lazy, a communication habit of people who couldn't be bothered finding the correct word.
~ Susan Lyons
Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.
~ Thoreau, Henry David
If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.
~ Tim O'Brien
Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.
~ Kerry Greenwood
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
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
~ Georges Bataille
Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk. What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad, Eve decided.
~ J.D. Robb
Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. - Jane
~ J.R. Ward
Motherf**ker. Bastard ass motherf**ker. C**ks**king rat-bitch bastard motherf**ker!" – Blay
~ J.R. Ward
I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'
~ Bill Cosby
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
~ Nancy Gibbs
There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
~ Phil Klay
Voilà!" said the artist, in perfect fucking French.
~ Christopher Moore
thou wretched pillar of syphilitic pheasant-fuck!
~ Christopher Moore
Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How
~ Christopher Moore
I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time. CHAPTER VIII.
~ Ulysses S. Grant