Profanity Quotes

• Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fool, Language

  25 Copy quote

• Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Effort, Brain

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee" by Elder L. Tom Perry, August 1986.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

  Ted E. Brewerton

  Dignity, Language, Should

  13 Copy quote

• Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Soul, Language, Form

  13 Copy quote

• To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Brave, Polite

  14 Copy quote

• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Character, Mean

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Deterioration, Our Society, Vulgarity

  7 Copy quote

• The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

  Horace Mann

  Ambition, Men, Devil

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

  Bob Hope

  Silent Films, Today, Language

  22 Copy quote

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

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

  17 Copy quote

• Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

  Philip Sidney

  Vain, Betray, Speakers

  6 Copy quote

• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Gentleman, Vices

  8 Copy quote

• 1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Use

  30 Copy quote

• Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

  Charles A. Didier

  Expression, Kind, Form

  "Language:A Divine Way of Communicating" by Charles A. Didier, www.lds.org. October 1979.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Quality, Language, Range

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  21 Copy quote

• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Sacred

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

  Jeremy Taylor

  God, Names, Tongue

  10 Copy quote

• I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Church, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

  Chris Tucker

  Cutting, Thinking, Cuss Words

  7 Copy quote

• If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

  Antoine R. Ivins

  Greatest Victory, Self, Gains

  9 Copy quote

• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Aggravation, Financial

  18 Copy quote

• It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

  William Cowper

  Blood, Rude, Chill

  11 Copy quote