Quotes About Profanity

#1. War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#2. There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.

Billy Graham

#3. However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

Boyd K. Packer

#4. Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.

Mary Norris

#5. Zach had been on the receiving end of a few of Lanning's ass-chewings back in the day. They were epic sagas of righteous fury and perfectly applied touches of profanity. It was like being verbally disemboweled.

Christopher Farnsworth

#6. Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

Spencer W. Kimball

#7. The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.

Elora Bishop

#9. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Dallin H. Oaks

#10. Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.

Megan Shepherd

#11. Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Bill Cosby

#12. I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

Kym Whitley

#13. I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

Bill Cosby

#14. I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

Manny Pacheco

#16. I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.

David Rees

#17. Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

Dolly Parton

#18. 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

#19. Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

Liz Phair

#21. We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.

Nancy Gibbs

#22. Look may be that everything is right, it is always best to have an inspection before marching. To forget a screw, if you have a loose one, and only discover your loss when you are miles from home and the view before you is "perfect", is to promote, possibly suicide, certainly profanity.

Henry Peach Robinson

#23. I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Howard Stern

#24. If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

Lilian Jackson Braun

#25. My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

Arthur Christiansen

#26. Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

James Hogg

#27. I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

John Wooden

#28. But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.

Edward Albee

#29. I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air ... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Harry Caray

#30. 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,

#31. Do you want me crucified for my profanity?

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Robert Klein

#33. I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

Mary McGarry Morris

#34. Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.

Andrew Pyper

#35. Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Kurt Vonnegut

#36. Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity

John Cleese

#37. I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

Mark Oliver Everett

#38. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
[Mark Twain, a Biography]

Mark Twain

#39. A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

Richard Pryor

#40. This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank.

Christopher Moore

#41. I sit here thinking it over for several minutes before I come to the conclusion that I have just been word-slapped by a girl who never raised her voice or used profanity.

J.A. Huss

#42. I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Nicholas Sparks

#43. Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

J.R. Moehringer

#44. For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Victoria Woodhull

#45. The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

Sufjan Stevens

#46. Cam laughed. "You know, my grandmother always said no woman with a decent vocabulary would resort to profanity."
Kori huffed. "My grandmother said, 'Get the hell out of my house, bitch, before I throw you out on your ass.

Rachel Vincent

#47. American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

#48. Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.

Tim Robson

#49. There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

Diana Palmer

#50. I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Katie Aselton

#51. Keating can be somewhat liberal with the profanity, so I shall substitute the word 'albatross' where necessary, and you may read that part privately later.

Suzanne Enoch

#52. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

#53. A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

Ben Horowitz

#54. I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter ... or anybody else's wife.

Tommy Lasorda

#55. A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.

Bill O'Reilly

#56. No," I said, louder this time. "I mean asscrown. The crown on top of the asshat that covers the asshole of the assclown. The very zenith in the hierarchy of asses," I said, as though reading from a dictionary of modern profanity.

Michelle Hodkin

#57. I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

Dee Snider

#58. I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#59. I've never been given to casual use of vulgar language
unwarranted profanity implies mental laziness
but there's no other way to say this: a guy tries to fuck me ... well, fuck him.

James Carlos Blake

#60. ... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity.

Theresa Romain

#61. Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.

Jacqueline Patricks

#62. 1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

John Wooden

#63. The funeral of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage was flawed when his pet parrot had to be removed because it kept squawking out the profanity Jackson had taught the foul fowl.20

Craig Shirley

#64. Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

Bill Cosby

#65. Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

Randall Dale Adams

#66. Great stories do not require profanity.

Joan Bannan

#67. Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Theodore Roosevelt

#68. I've always found profanity to be a lot like bacon," said Ciara. "It works wonders on the flavor of your speech, but it lacks impact when used excessively.

Seanan McGuire

#69. It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

Lemony Snicket

#70. I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

Bill Cosby

#71. Matthias knew if he started trailing after Nina on missions like some kind of watchdog, she'd put her hands on those glorious hips and demonstrate her knowledge of profanity in several different languages.

Leigh Bardugo

#72. We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

Kevin Constantine

#73. the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded

Terry Fallis

#74. I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Mark Twain

#75. There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Danny Aiello

#76. Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I

Katja Millay

#77. Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

Wesley Willis

#78. As your priest," says de Soya, "I will warn you again about the use of profanity. As your commanding officer, I order you to come up with as many surprises as you can to kill that spiked son of a bitch." They

Dan Simmons

#79. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

#80. Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know ... size -Tuck

Simone Elkeles

#81. The guy snarled out a string of profanity describing his night with Conn's mother.

"Sounds about right," Conn said, but Matt didn't miss the glint in Conn's eye. "She's been dead for twenty years, but dead's probably the only way you get laid.

Anne Calhoun

#82. Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry.

Trent Reznor

#83. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.

Betty Smith

#84. The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

Randall Wright

#85. Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

Edmund White

#86. Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#87. There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Kirby Larson

#88. Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps ... Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#89. Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.

Wesley Willis

#90. As the conjugal act cannot be spoken of aloud for reasons both sacred and profane, the ritual of the pipe was, for the pair of them, a holy ritual that was unspeakable and mortified, just as it was ecstatic and divine: its sacredness lay in its very profanity, and its profanity, in its sacred form.

Eleanor Catton

#91. Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were no dirty stories told, no unjust criticism - what a different world this would be!

Billy Graham

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

Michael Bassey Johnson

#93. Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that ... there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#94. A thistle grows about here which has needles on it that would pierce through leather, I think; if one touches you, you can find relief in nothing but profanity.

Mark Twain

#95. Shit," she muttered. She'd heard the word from her guard many times, but only now did she understand the real use of profanity. That one word said exactly what she was feeling, said it better than a hundred other words could have done.

Erika Johansen

#96. I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Chris Tucker

#97. The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.

Ron Brackin

#98. I'd always imagined that I'd come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity.

How embarrassing.

Kate SeRine

#99. The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#100. There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Phil Klay