Profanity Quotes

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

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
― Mel Brooks

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was 'breaking the Lord's fourth commandment,' and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. The country is full of this superstition, so that when one enters a village, the church, not only really but from association, is the ugliest looking building in it, because it is the one in which human nature stoops the lowest and is most disgraced. Certainly, such temples as these shall erelong cease to deform the landscape. There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...”
― David Sedaris

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

[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
― Mark Twain

“If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.”
― Lenny Bruce

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

“What kind of fuckery is this?”
― Amy Winehouse

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

“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

“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!”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”
― Johnny Carson

“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.”
― Richard Pryor, Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences

“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.”
― Dick Cavett

“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.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Saw Red

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

“You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.”
― Chris Crutcher, Angry Management

“Gramps always says people only swear because their vocabulary is limited...In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Hour of the Lion

“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”
― Brendan Gill

“Georgie: I feel stupid.

Andrew: What are you talking about, you feel stupid? You just walked in here and insulted me for ten minutes.

Georgie: That was different. I was mad.

Andrew: You have to be mad to talk?

Georgie: No, come on—I don't know—

Andrew: I could make you mad.

Georgie: No, you couldn't. You're too nice.

Andrew: Fuck you.

Georgie: —Andrew—

Andrew: Fuck you. Come on. Fuck you.

Georgie: Yeah, fuck you too.

Andrew: Fuck you.

Georige: Fuck you.

Andrew: Fuck you.

Georgie: You look really stupid saying fuck you—

Andrew: Fuck you. Fuck you! Fuck you.

Georgie: Andrew, stop it. Cut it out. It sounds weird when you say it. You shouldn't talk like that.

Andrew: You talk like that all the time!
Georgie: I'm different. I mean, I know how to swear. You don't. It's like, fuck you. Fuck you. Or, you know, fuck you. It's just—you know. You got to know how to say it.

Andrew: Fuck you.

Georgie: Forget it. You look really stupid. You look the way I look when I try to talk like you.

Andrew: You've tried it? Really? I must have missed that day.

Georgie: Oh, fuck you.”
― Theresa Rebeck, Spike Heels

“I am definitely not a fucking toaster.”
― Jim Chaseley, Z14

“I'm going to enjoy this.”
“What?” I asked. “Hell?”
― J.X. Burros

“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.”
― Sarah Royal, The Book Bindery

“Now and then, teaching may approach poetry, and now and then it may approach profanity. May I tell you a little story about the great Einstein? I listened once to Einstein as he talked to a group of physicists in a party. "Why have all the electrons the same charge?" said he. "Well, why are all the little balls in the goat dung of the same size?" Why did Einstein say such things? Just to make some snobs to raise their eyebrows? He was not disinclined to do so, I think. Yet, probably, it went deeper. I do not think that the overheard remark of Einstein was quite casual. At any rate, I learnt something from it: Abstractions are important; use all means to make them more tangible. Nothing is too good or too bad, too poetical or too trivial to clarify your abstractions. As Montaigne put it: The truth is such a great thing that we should not disdain any means that could lead to it. Therefore, if the spirit moves you to be a little poetical, or a little profane, in your class, do not have the wrong kind of inhibition." - George Polya's Mathematical Discovery, Volume 11, pp 102, 1962.”
― George Pólya, Mathematical Discovery: On Understanding, Learning and Teaching Problem Solving Combined Edition

“My mother, God rest her, didn't approve of profanity or any such talk; she called it 'the language of the ignorant.' This did not, however, keep her from yelling 'Oh shit!' if she burned the roast or nailed her thumb a good one while hammering a picture-hook in the wall.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...”
― Javier Cercas, Soldados de salamina

“His hazel eyes guttered. 'Not eating won't bring your father back.'

'This has nothing to do with this,' she hissed. 'Nothing.'

He braced his forearms on the table. 'We're going to cut the bullshit. You think I haven't gone through what you're dealing with? You think I haven't seen and done and felt all that before? And seen those I love deal with it , too? You aren't the first, and you won't be the last. What happened to your father was terrible, Nesta, but-'

She shot to her feet. 'You don't know anything.' She couldn't stop the shaking that overtook her. From rage or something else, she didn't know. She balled her hands into fists. 'Keep your fucking opinions to yourself.'

He blinked at the profanity., at that she guessed was the white-hot rage crinkling her face. And then he said, 'Who taught you to curse?'

She squeezed her fists harder. 'You lost. You have the filthiest mouths I've ever heard.'

Cassian's eyes narrowed with amusement, but his mouth remained a thin line. 'I'll keep my fucking opinions to myself if you eat.'

She threw every bit of venom she could muster into her gaze.

He only waited. Unmovable as the mountain into which the House had been built.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames