Swear Quotes

• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Presidential, Habit, Swearing

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Falling In Love, People, Falling For You

  Song: The Moment You Were Mine, Album: You Hold the Key

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• Liars are always most disposed to swear.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Liars, Lying, Lies And Liars

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197

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• And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Infinity, Infinite, Moments

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

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• When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Anger

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Lose your soul in God's Love...
  I swear there is no other way !

  Rumi

  Soul, Way, God's Love

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• I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Gentleman, Illness

  "White Nights and Other Stories".

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• I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mischief

  Tracy Vyas, JK Rowling “Priori Incantatem”, Lulu.com

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• Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

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• I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  John Galt

  Men, Fans, Phrases

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• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Money doesn't talk, it swears.

  Bob Dylan

  Funny, Money, Funny Money

  "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

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• 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. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

  Clint Eastwood

  Years, Stills, Knows

  Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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• People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

  Willard Wigan

  People, Firsts, First Time

  "The world's leading micro artist has finally made it big". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 2007.

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• All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Perfection, Able

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.587

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• People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

  Steven Pinker

  Differences, Knowing, People

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• Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

  Bill Watterson

  Disappointment, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship, Harder

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• People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

  Tim Vine

  Silly, People, Childhood

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• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Depressing, Thinking

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• When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

  Plato

  Twins, Twin Sister, Seriousness

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• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Alcohol, Done

  "The Temperance Lecture" (radio broadcast) (1938)

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

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• See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Sometimes, Jem

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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