Swearing Quotes - Page 2

• I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!

  J. Golden Kimball

  Hell, Damn, Repent

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• 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.

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• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
  [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

  Quintilian

  Men, Honorable Man, Becoming

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• 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

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• And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Insult

  Alexander Pope (1872). “Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison”, p.99

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• Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Funny, Obsolete, Term

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.16

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• The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

  Laurence Sterne

  Angel, Flew Up, Forever

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 6, ch. 8

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• Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Prayer, Children, Hate

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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• I am going to be using Ronald Reagan's Bible [during swearing-in]. But I'm also going to be using one of our personal Bibles from home; it'll be different than the one I used when I was inaugurated as governor.

  Mike Pence

  Home, Different, Used

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, God, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.41, 谷月社

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• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

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

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• When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."

  George Washington

  Fashion, Sorry, Army

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• People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

  Tim Vine

  Silly, People, Childhood

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• Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

  Robert Lowth

  Men, Wiser, Profane

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• Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

  Steven Moffat

  Writing, Mean, Adults

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, Today

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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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• I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Events, Tweet

  Neil Gaiman‏ @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 4, 2009.

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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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• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

  John Ruskin

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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• I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.

  Keith Carradine

  Badass, Mean, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Oaths are the fossils of piety.

  George Santayana

  Promise, Fossils, Piety

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Practice, Feelings, Doe

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Niece, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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