Swearing Quotes

• Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

  Coleman Young

  Art, Express Yourself, Used

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• Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

  Leon Trotsky

  People, Disrespect, Legacy

  Leon Trotsky (1973). “Problems of everyday life, and other writings on culture & science”, Anchor Foundation

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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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'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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• I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Interesting, Mouths, Found

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• Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

  David Crystal

  Relief, Excellent, Mechanism

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• I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

  Rachel Nichols

  Kindness, Thinking, Yelling

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• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Running, Witty

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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, Profanity, Oath

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

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• The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Sports

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• There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

  Peter Capaldi

  Clever, Pieces, Too Much

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• swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

  Mary Collyer

  Stupid, Ignorant, Said

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  Euripides

  Soul, Tongue, My Soul

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

  Steven Pinker

  Differences, Knowing, People

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• Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

  Willie Nelson

  Rap, Kids, Thinking

  Playboy Interview, November 2002.

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• Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Long, Boisterous, Alive

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• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

  George Farquhar

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3

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• Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

  Eminem

  Fun, Kids, Want

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• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Presidential, Habit, Expletives

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Thinking, Emotional

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• I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

  Irene Dunne

  Jane

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