Against Profanity Quotes

#1. I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

Robert Klein

#2. Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

Celia Rees

#3. Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.

Derek Jeter

#5. You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

Immanuel Kant

#6. My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

Thomas Demand

#7. Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

Jef I. Richards

#8. It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

George William Curtis

#9. Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Oliver James

#11. If you cannot fit into the mould, then you must step out of it,

Kathleen Tessaro

#12. If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

Connie Nielsen

#13. Priorities lead to prosperity.

Michelle Singletary

#14. Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Oscar Wilde

#15. For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Pearl S. Buck

#16. It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Alan Bleasdale

#17. 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 1 in the primer of minor poetry.

G.K. Chesterton