Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
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In certain circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
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Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherf**ckers.
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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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'Words Of Profanity'
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but short tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we ve added years to life, not life to years.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
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