On Swearing Quotes

#1. I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

Hutch Harris

#2. Six hours' uninterrupted sleep each night, correspondenceanswered promptly, tenants provided for, base temptations avoided,swearing curtailed, regular visits to church - this righteous routine kepthim on track, but he began to think it could not transform him.

Meredith Duran

#3. I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

Hugh Jackman

#4. 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

#5. Vulgarity is like a fine wine: it should only be uncorked on a special occasion, and then only shared with the right group of people.

James Rozoff

#6. Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

Jerome K. Jerome

#7. I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but ... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

Brian Lamb

#8. When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"

Mitch Hedberg

#9. 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

#10. ... made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

Nelson DeMille

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

Alexander Pope

#12. We walk toward the training room, Shauna updating Zeke on her week at the fence
Two days ago the idiot I was on patrol with started freaking out, swearing he saw something out there ... Turns out it was a plastic bag.

Veronica Roth

#13. I seem to remember a certain someone swearing that she couldn't dance at all. Obviously I must have been with her twin sister, because i was expecting you to step on my toes all night. Been taking lessons, Princess?
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#14. Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.

H. Rider Haggard

#15. Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

S.A. Tawks

#16. Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines to take cover; this did no good; I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool.

Jack Kerouac

#17. I really thought I was quite a respectable lad, and might have been half inclined to boast that I was not like other boys, - untruthful, dishonest, disobedient, swearing, Sabbath-breaking, and so on. But, all of a sudden, I met Moses,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. Never have I enjoyed such swearing, before or since. Sir, on that memorable day, he swore like an angel from Heaven.

Sarah Vowell

#19. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, you fucking alien motherfucker.

Rick Yancey

#20. you've exceeded expectations for a prince charming pretty much every step of the way." "I still have bad habits," he pointed out. "Leaving my socks on the floor. Waging wholesale slaughter and pillaging innocent worlds. Swearing.

Terry Mancour

#21. I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you. Capt. Wolf Larsen

Jack London

#22. Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti - hugh penises were a favourite - on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings,

Alison Weir

#23. As I was marginally less proficient on a bicycle than I was at particle physics, this involved a lot of swearing and swerving on my part, and a lot of exasperated shouting on his. As

Jojo Moyes

#24. Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

Wayne Rooney

#25. Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

Ernest Borgnine

#26. Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't have to worry about swearing or going off the script or going long or going short. If you bomb, only a handful of people see it. On TV, a lot of people see it.

Gary Gulman

#27. When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.

Eric Massa

#28. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...

Meg Cabot

#29. Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

Elayne Boosler