#profanity

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#church #go #i #i do #novels

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them. ↗

— Liz Phair

#how #i #i do #matter #profanity

Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them! ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#cursing #profanity #rage #anger

I'm going to enjoy this.” “What?” I asked. “Hell? ↗

— J.X. Burros

#profanity #scarlet-spotlight #vampire #death

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm's length on a level with his eyes--the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big and heavy--and made the sign of the cross with it over the dead. He said, "Rest in peace, motherfuckers," turned, and walked out of the beer lady's house to wait at the side of the road. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#death #guns #murder #profanity #death

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

— Mel Brooks

#humor #profanity #shit #vulgarity #humor

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#profound #life

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! ↗

— John Waters

#fuck #profanity #reading #read

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. ↗

— Spencer W. Kimball

#effort

Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit... ↗

— David Sedaris

#shit #swearing #tofu #desire