Top 35 Quotes About Four Letter Words
#1. The lesser of the evils now before us is to abandon all moral censorship. We have either sunk beneath or risen above it. If we do, there will be reams of filth. But we need not read it. Nor, probably, will the fashion last for ever. Four-letter words may soon be as dated as antimacassars.
C.S. Lewis
#2. Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.
Louis Tice
#3. There are only two four letter words that are offense to men. The words don't and stop. Well, unless they are used together.
Christine Zolendz
#4. 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
#5. I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge
Douglas Preston
#6. Love and lust are both four letter words that start with L, but they don't appear in the dictionary side by side so we shouldn't have to think they go hand in hand in life.
LaToya Hankins
#7. I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
Pat Morita
#8. Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.
Red Skelton
#10. They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.
Raymond Floyd
#11. I can't say what my first thought was as I sunk below the surface, because it was mostly a string of four-letter words.
Rachel Hawkins
#12. You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.
Pablo Picasso
#13. There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication
Jason Fried
#14. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
W.C. Fields
#15. Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
Thomas Sowell
#16. She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language.
Love.
Help.
Rape.
Stop.
Then.
Jodi Picoult
#17. People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
Tim Conway
#18. Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love.
Margaret Atwood
#19. My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.
Dixie Carter
#20. The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
George Steiner
#21. Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.
Cole Porter
#22. I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.
Ginger Rogers
#23. My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.
John Wayne
#24. As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.
Linda Kaplan Thaler
#25. Ya better come inside
when you're ready to
but no chance if ya don't wanna dance
you like four letter words when you're ready to
but then you won't 'cos you know that you can
Def Leppard
#26. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead
Jennifer A. Girardin
#27. Did that hurt? On your lip?"
"Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.
Tammara Webber
#28. This wine makes me feel like I'm bathed in amnion, breathless, fed by the motherbloodflow in the umbilical vein, fetal, slippery and tumbling over and over in the warmth of the beating womb, warm amnion, warmnion.
Samuel Shem
#29. The NHL's opinion of itself is so high ... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.
Alexander Medvedev
#31. My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.
Laini Taylor
#32. To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.
Mindy Kaling
#33. A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis
#35. No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
Derek Parfit
