Profanity Quotes - Page 3

• What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

  Richard Pryor

  Profound, Might, Profane

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• I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the bench and talk to you before I would put you back in.

  John Wooden

  Blow, Benches, Court

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• There was a time in my life that I may not have been that nice, and now I'm in a position to contribute to the education of young people, and teach them to be compassionate, be more loving, more caring, to not use profanity, to not pollute the environment - these are things that I address in my photography. I

  Jamel Shabazz

  Photography, Nice, Caring

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Evil, Use

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• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.

  Bill Cosby

  Friday, Monday, Children

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Aping urbanity,
  Oozing with vanity,
  Plump as a manatee,
  Faking humanity,
  Intellectual inanity,
  Journalistic calamity,
  Fox Noise insanity,
  You're a profanity,
  Hannity.

  John Cleese

  Vanity, Insanity, Humanity

  "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.

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• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Maturity, Stories

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

  Geoffrey Perret

  Beach, War, Men

  Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster

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• The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Children, Lessons, Midst

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• Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?

  George Q. Cannon

  Angel, Names, Ideas

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• Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.

  Wesley Willis

  Rocks, Joy, Pay

  "Live EP". Audio CD, the end, February 20, 2001.

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• My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

  Tommy Lasorda

  People, Looks, Use

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

  Edmund White

  Reflection, Men, Looks

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.284, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

  Arthur Christiansen

  Ideas, Heaven, Pages

  1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

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• There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

  Kirby Larson

  Nerves, Calm, Outburst

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.54, Yearling

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• 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

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• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  Harry Caray

  Air, Cows, Holy

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• I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

  Katie Aselton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Sound

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

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Encounters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Men, Doe, Use

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• I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hurt, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Trust, Drinking, People

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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Listening, Trying

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• Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Speech, Abbreviations

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