Quotes about profanity

Allyse Near - Fairytales for Wilde Girls

He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.''Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

George Orwell - 1984

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

Magan Vernon - A Paper Trail

He shook his head. "No, we do. I may be a little buzzed and really fucking horny, but I also need you to know that I love you. I should have said it the first time months ago, and I will keep saying it every damn day. I love you more than every single star in the Louisiana sky above us.

S.K. Logsdon - Stricken Unveiled

Oooo...He's being a saucy motherfu*ker tonight. He does wrong and I'm the one who gets treated like the whore of Babylon. Fine, he wants a show I'll give him a damn show.

Megan Shepherd - The Madman’s Daughter

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.

T.A. Keizer -

-Shut the FUCK UP, said

Peter Carey -

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

David Wong - John Dies at the End

Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.

Kathleen Alcott -

Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most.

Tamora Pierce - Bloodhound

Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers

He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.

Johnny Carson -

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

Elmore Leonard - Pagan Babies

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm's length on a level with his eyes--the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big and heavy--and made the sign of the cross with it over the dead. He said, "Rest in peace, motherfuckers," turned, and walked out of the beer lady's house to wait at the side of the road.

Elizabeth Peters - The Deeds of the Disturber

...DAMNATION!'No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to his Egyptian workers by the admiring sobriquet of Father of Curses. The volume as well as the content of his remarks earned him the title; but this shout was extraordinary even by Emerson's standards, so much so that the cat Bastet, who had become more or less accustomed to him, started violently, and fell with a splash into the bathtub.The scene that fol

Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Saw Red

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

Junnita Jackson -

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass.

David Morrell - The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing

If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I've seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.'If you don't -blanking- get your -blanking-blank-blank- in to this house this -blanking- minute, I'm going to -blank- your -blank- and nail it to the -blanking- door.'Two things happen when I read this junk: I get bored and I get angry. I didn't pick up your book to read garbage. If this is as clever as you can be, I don't want to

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll -

I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas.

Lenny Bruce -

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.

Mark Twain -

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

Bob Dylan -

Play it fuckin' loud!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Hocus Pocus

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

John Waters -

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

Anthony Ryan - Queen of Fire

Thirty-four, still undecided on a name, sat practicing his Realm tongue with Draker, although much of the lesson seemed to consist of the correct use of profanity. "No," the big man shook his shaggy head. "Pig-fucker not fuck-pigger.

Sarah Royal - The Book Bindery

As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the code a secret. As I’ve known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.

J.X. Burros -

I'm going to enjoy this.”“What?” I asked. “Hell?

Aubrey de Sélincourt -

Religious ceremonial nowadays provides less opportunity for bad language and sexual symbolism.

Dee Snider -

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

Mel Brooks -

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Mark Twain -

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."]

Jennifer Donnelly - Revolution

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like the woolly mammoth. It just couldn't live in the same world as dick box. Ho dog. Or wiener cousins.

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