Quotes on Profanity

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

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.

Aping urbanity, _x000D_ Oozing with vanity, _x000D_ Plump as a manatee, _x000D_ Faking humanity, _x000D_ Intellectual inanity, _x000D_ Journalistic calamity, _x000D_ Fox Noise insanity, _x000D_ You're a profanity, _x000D_ Hannity.

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

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.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

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

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

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

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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.