William Shakespeare Quotes About Swearing

• When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Profanity, Swearing

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

• It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  1601 SirToby to SirAndrew.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.4, l.176-8.

• I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Son, Swearing

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [108]

• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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