Profanity Quotes - Page 2

• Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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• Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

  Hosea Ballou

  People, Benefits, Sin

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• [I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

  Mark Twain

  House, Speak, Unchristian

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

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• Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Knowing, Heaven

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• However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

  Boyd K. Packer

  Irreverence, Common

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  A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  Richard Pryor

  Art, Lying, World

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  All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Hockey, Player

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• Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Mind, Trying, Weak

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• A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

  Joseph Cook

  Men, Expression, Lows

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• No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

  David O. McKay

  Home, Names, Parent

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

  George S. Patton

  Running, Nice, Party

  "General Patton's Address to the Troops". "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Clothes, Sick

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

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Swearing, Oath

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

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• profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, People, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.13, Penguin

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• ...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Knows, Ifs

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1986). “The Cat Who Saw Red”, p.8, Penguin

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• Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size" -Tuck

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Trying, Use

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Clothes, Gentleman

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• None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

  John Tillotson

  Scoffing, Trifling, Swear

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.37

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• Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions?

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Passion, Thinking

  Joseph Addison (1827). “The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation”, p.92

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• I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

  David Rees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a
  convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Exercise, Pessimism, Conventions

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• 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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• Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Purpose, Blasphemy

  "Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1990.

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