Profanity Quotes

“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.”

“...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!”

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

“Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most.”

“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”

“Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.”

“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr”

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

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished that we had had him on our debate team.”

“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.”