Swearing Quotes

• There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, House

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.380, Courier Corporation

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• I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Interesting, Mouths, Found

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• Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

  Coleman Young

  Art, Express Yourself, Used

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• I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

  Mel Brooks

  Psychics, Vulgarity Is, Bullshit

  "Mel Brooks Honored With AFI Life Achievement Award" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2013.

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• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Character, Mean

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Profanity, Oath

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

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• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

  George Farquhar

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3

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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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• Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Prayer, Children, Hate

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  Euripides

  Soul, Tongue, My Soul

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

  Peter Capaldi

  Clever, Pieces, Too Much

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• Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, God, Names

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.41, 谷月社

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  1601 SirToby to SirAndrew.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.4, l.176-8.

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• The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Sports

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Civil War, Trying

  Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Captains, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Niece, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Long, Boisterous, Alive

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• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Business, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.

  Keith Carradine

  Badass, Mean, Bills

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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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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• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

  John Ruskin

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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• Oaths are the fossils of piety.

  George Santayana

  Promise, Fossils, Piety

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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