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It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity. — Lemony Snicket

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

What kind of fuckery is this? — Amy Winehouse

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

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions — Alanis Morissette

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. — Kevin Constantine

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow. — Alan Garner

Do you want me crucified for my profanity? — Ozzy Osbourne

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them. — Liz Phair

Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous. — Tim Robson

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

I'm going to enjoy this."
"What?" I asked. "Hell? — J.X. Burros

The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

This book contains a lot of "bad" words. So if you are easily offended, go fuck yourself. — Oliver Markus

For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page. — Jonathan Galassi

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass. — Junnita Jackson

Play it fuckin' loud! — Bob Dylan

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

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. — Dallin H. Oaks

I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity. — David Rees

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. — Nicholas Sparks

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. — Spencer W. Kimball

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war. — Dee Hock

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

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. — Kirby Larson

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. — Diana Palmer

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. — Gordie Howe

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

Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. — Marilyn Manson

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. — John Tillotson

The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. — Jeanette Winterson

Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me. — Andrew Pyper

My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be learned through a lifetime of Catholic education. — Emma Chase

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. — Victoria Woodhull

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion! — David R. Palmer

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

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

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

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly. — Robert Klein

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

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. — Hosea Ballou

Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen. — Megan Shepherd

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

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. — Rod Serling

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. — Richard Pryor

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

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. — Richard Pryor

Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind. — Shane K.P. O'Neill

Profanity influences mental harm for the community and people should be aware of it. — Saaif Alam

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

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. — Chris Crutcher

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. — Alexander Pope

Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut

Great stories do not require profanity. — Joan Bannan

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

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

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

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably. — Randall Dale Adams

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

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. — William Shakespeare

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo. — Joan Crawford

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

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. — Mark Twain

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

Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I — Katja Millay

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong — Boyd K. Packer

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms. — Phil Klay

When I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth. — William Manchester

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. — Peter Carey

Talk in order that I may see you. — Socrates

I am definitely not a fucking toaster. — Jim Chaseley

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. — Dick Cavett

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity. — Tedd Arnold

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity. — John Wooden

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

... Parrying, puckishness, and a touch of profanity. — Theresa Romain

I don't trust people who don't use profanity. — Mark Oliver Everett

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

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

the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded — Terry Fallis

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices. — Bill Cosby

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

Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it. — Jacqueline Patricks

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. — Philip Sidney

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. — Gordie Howe

Religious ceremonial nowadays provides less opportunity for bad language and sexual symbolism. — Aubrey De Selincourt

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

If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about! — Lilian Jackson Braun