Mark Twain Quotes About Swearing

• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

• There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, House

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.380, Courier Corporation

• The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Nice, Ideas

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

• It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Ass

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1429, GENERAL PRESS

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