Top 34 Quotes About Expletives: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Expletives

#1. They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

Tom Rachman

#2. I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment.

Nina LaCour

#3. If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it
and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.

Don Alias

#4. If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

Walter Isaacson

#5. It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James

#6. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, Lie down.

Hugh Walpole

#7. You'll run out of expletives soon; I'd advise saving some for later. Not that keeping forces in reserve has ever been precisely you guys' strong point, has it?

Iain M. Banks

#8. The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources.

Stephen Crane

#9. The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

Micky Mellon

#10. One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

#11. The reality of intelligent British speech ... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Stephen Fry

#12. I look at Gloria with her red hair and glass of champagne and expression of utter disdain and wonder how many expletives she'd manage to fit into a sentence if I asked her to teach me to knit or bake me a cake.

Clare Furniss

#13. What in the name of Voldy's pasty-white rear end was that?

G. Norman Lippert

#14. Lucifer's bouncing balls, Kitten, not again!

Jeaniene Frost

#15. Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
"Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.

Jim Butcher

#16. Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it 'self-evident'.

Terry Goodkind

#18. Jiminy Christmas!

M.J. Allaire

#19. In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

Frederick Lenz

#20. He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.

Keith Steinbaum

#21. The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Tom Cruise

#22. Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

Mark Shand

#23. It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Ed Belfour

#24. Fall.
My words will guide you
softly
down into
the safety
of my arms.

Kirk Diedrich

#25. When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it', and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.

David Sedaris

#26. Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Madonna

#27. I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil.

Ernie Els

#28. We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Julie Taymor