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Quotes About Profanity

Someone told me I need to stop dropping F-bombs. What the [f*@%] is an F-bomb?
~ Internet meme
Scorpios speak five languages — English, Profanity, Sarcasm, Truth, and Love.
~ Internet meme
His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn't chew and didn't dare try to swallow.
~ Lee Goldberg
Now, get in the damn jeep. It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity, but the Baudelaire orphans were too terrified to point this out to Stephano. Taking one last look at their poor Uncle Monty, the three children followed Stephano to the door of the Reptile Room to get in the damn jeep.
~ Lemony Snicket
Bitch. Slut. Whore. Cunt. I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.
~ Janet Evanovich
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
~ Harry Caray
I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.
~ Bill Cosby
Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt.
~ Tim Pratt
She was a poetess of profanity, an oracle of epithets who could outcuss a bathroom wall. Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility
~ Pat Conroy
Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch!
~ Dan Simmons
I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.
~ Dan Simmons
Asshole cunt peepee fuck." "Ah," grinned Old Sludge, showing his one tooth, "going to the company store to get some algae chewies, huh?" "Goddamn poopoo," I would grin back at him.
~ Dan Simmons
As your priest," says de Soya, "I will warn you again about the use of profanity. As your commanding officer, I order you to come up with as many surprises as you can to kill that spiked son of a bitch." They
~ Dan Simmons
For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo.
~ Dan Simmons
What in fuck do you fucking well think you're fucking doing?' The officer's broad helmet bobbed as he shouted. I thanked all of the gods that he was not a Sikh.
~ Dan Simmons
It's how we communicated.' 'I like old-fashioned language.' 'With cussing,' he said. 'Fuck, yeah. Cussing makes you live longer. Did you know that? It gets shit out of your system.
~ Chris Offutt
This book also contains what some people call 'profanity'. I think they're full of shit.
~ Lewis Black
These people are the first line of defense when it comes to the terrorist threat, but the word "shit" makes them cry. "Why didn't he say poopie?! Why didn't he say poopie?!"
~ Lewis Niles Black
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
~ Lionel Shriver
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Question for the Family Feud game show: "Name something that you can't say on TV.
~ Unknown
Rejected seed of a diseased pig-eater,' I began. 'Despised dropping from a dead vulture's crutch. Eater of sweeper's turds and feeder on after-birth. Fart in the holy silence of the universe and limp pudenda on the body of the false prophet.
~ Paul Scott
Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
~ Coleman Young