Quotes About Use Of Profanity

#1. 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

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

Terry Fallis

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Ron Brackin

#6. 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

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Adi Da

#8. I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can.

Seanan McGuire

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

Lemony Snicket

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

Mark Twain

#11. Ghosts may also exist because we will them to exist.

John Kachuba

#12. Damian..."
"Yes?"
"Where are you?"
"Wherever you want me to be."
"I'll leave the door unlocked.

Andrew Mayne

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. ... if the Englishman does not disclose his soul, he readily opens his home. A Frenchman may reveal his life secrets after half an hour's aquaintance. But he does not ask one home.

Gustaaf Johannes Renier

#17. Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

Tommy Lasorda

#19. I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.

Godfrey

#20. Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

Tedd Arnold

#21. We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

Anita Baker

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

John Wooden

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

Jacqueline Patricks

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Johnny Carson

#27. 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

#28. Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

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

Nicholas Sparks

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

Mark Oliver Everett

#31. 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

#32. Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Maya Angelou

#33. 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

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

Bill Cosby

#35. 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

#36. Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.

Carl Sandburg