Profanity Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Profanity.
Top Quotes
“Sexual slang”
“Freedom of speech”
“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders.”
“I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.”
“In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.”
“What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck, fucky, fuckity, fuck-fuck-fuck.”
“Jack was embarrassed—never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.”
“That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.”
“And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God?”
“Wikipedia: Profanity”
“When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”
“Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.”
“There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.”
“Do not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.”
“And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.”
“Bad language or abuse
I never, never use,
Whatever the emergency;
Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big D.”
“For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
“A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.”
“If you can't spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between the sacred and profane, you'll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything.”