Quotes About Swearing

Billy Connolly is probably the greatest stand-up this country has ever produced and he swears all the time.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.

He pinpointed the reservoir from the man's pilot relief tube, already half-full. "Must be a nervous sort of fellow—" He set it to backwash at full power, and checked the audio transmitter. Savage swearing filled the air briefly, overridden by a snarl calling for radio silence. "Now, there is one distracted soldier.

Balzampleu!" said the Swiss, who, despite the fine collection of oaths boasted by the German language, had taken to swearing in French.

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

He died shortly afterwards, at my house, swearing and always repeating that pain was an illusion, and that Pangloss, the slandered Pangloss, was not as foolish as Voltaire supposed.

What happens when you swear?" "Nothing. Sometimes it makes me feel better. Not often. Not unless I can really shout." "Oh. I thought maybe if I swore, God would strike me down." "No," Sunset answered sadly. "It doesn't work that way. It's too bad, isn't it. But sometimes it does help if you shout. Would you like to try it?

Never have I enjoyed such swearing, before or since. Sir, on that memorable day, he swore like an angel from Heaven.

In the Book of Genesis, God creates the world in six days and seals his covenant with humanity on the seventh. Because of this, the Hebrew verb used for swearing a covenant oath is, literally translated, "to seven oneself.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

How come you forget English when you swear?

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages, is best learned at an early age, but because he regarded it as a social grace he never gave up trying to master it.

Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.

Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning.

school). He has a very posh English accent and strides around with a walking stick, swearing like a maniac.

A little honest swearin" wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing.

Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic — indeed, it is a species of magic.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.

There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside. People started to gather on the street, until Rosa Hubermann swore at them, after which they reversed back whence they came. ~A TRANSLATION OF ROSA HUBERMANN'S ANNOUNCEMENT~ 'What are you arseholes looking at?