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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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer
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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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In certain circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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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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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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Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherf**ckers.
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
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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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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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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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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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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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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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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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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
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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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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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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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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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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.
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
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