Quotes of Profanity - somelinesforyou

“ They think just because there's teenagers here, they're always cursing and swearing. ”

- Robbie Robertson

“ The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work. ”

- A.T. Mercier

“ Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. ”

- George Washington

“ It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ”

- William Cowper

“ Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ 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

“ I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for… ”

- Rosa Parks

“ I don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to me. I was just modeling, thinking of as many different poses as possible. I made more money modeling than being a secretary. I had a lot of free time… ”

- Bette Page

“ There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice. ”

- Unknown

“ I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the "f" word. ”

- Helena Bonham Carter

“ I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. ”

- Mae West

“ Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. ”

- Bible

“ It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ 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. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. ”

- Isaac Barrow

“ I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our armies swore terrible in Flanders. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church. ”

- Isaac Barrow

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

- Mark Twain

“ If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ”

- Horace G. Hutchinson

“ Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ”

- Mark Twain

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

- Chris Tucker

“ 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
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