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  • Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

    Funny   Obsolete   Term  
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.16
  • When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

    1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.
  • I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

    Want   Able   Enjoy  
    HipHop Canada Interview, July 12, 2006.
  • The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.

    Ruben Papian (2013). “How to Wish”, p.13
  • I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

    Neil Gaiman‏ @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 4, 2009.
  • Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.

    Self   Annoyed   Church  
    Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.253, Simon and Schuster
  • Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Badass   Mean   Bills  
    "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
  • Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

    Atheist   Prayer   Book  
  • A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

    Secret   Asking   Secrecy  
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.102, Macmillan
  • No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence.

    Home   Names   Parent  
  • Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

    Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.
  • Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

    Prayer   Children   Hate  
    Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press
  • Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

    Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311
  • I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

    Source: collider.com
  • Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus.

    Jesus   Pain   Names  
  • Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

    Fun   Kids   Want  
  • To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

  • Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: "Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men." He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: "The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband." He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: "Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.

    Art   Husband   War  
  • 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.

    Quoted in Francis B. Carpenter, The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House (1869)
  • Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
  • There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

    Editing   Rooms   Hours  
    "Q+A: Liev Schreiber". Esquire Magazine Interview with Rowan West, October, 2005.
  • Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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

    Book   Writing   Sacred  
    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
  • I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

  • I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

    Lying   Men   Names  
    Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275
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