Profanity

Notable quotes

“What's the big deal? It doesn't hurt anybody. Fuck, fucky, fuckity, fuck-fuck-fuck.”
— Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (character of Eric Cartman).
“If you can't spontaneously detect (without analyzing) the difference between the sacred and profane, you'll never know what religion means. You will also never figure out what we commonly call art. You will never understand anything.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) The Sacred and the Profane, p.19.
“When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.”
— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 1, line 11.
“I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (1597), Act, I, scene 2, line 109.
“"He shall not die, by God," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.”
— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book VI, Chapter VIII.
“In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.”
— To swear, except when necessary, is unbecoming to an honorable man.

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