87 Quotes About Swearing
- Author Bill Bryson
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Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemistic expletives - darn, durn, goldurn, goshdad, goshdang, goshawful, blast, consarn, confound, by Jove, by jingo, great guns, by the great horn spoon (a nonce term first cited in the Biglow Papers), jo-fired, jumping Jehoshaphat, and others almost without number - but even this cautious epithets could land people in trouble as late as the 1940s.
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- Author Mohammed Zaki Ansari
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More then me you betrayed to God Because you said Tujkh mai rab dikhta hai ( i see my God in you)
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- Author Pawan Mishra
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Damn, the good words are all asterisked!” “The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!
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- Author Sarah Gailey
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Fucking Mages.
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- Author Edgar Cantero
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Why do all bullies think they can get away with 'I was a kid'? Guess what: I was a kid too, and I didn't make other people feel like shit! You were not a kid, you were a cunt!
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- Author Betty Smith
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Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was really saying, “Goodbye—God bless you.
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- Author Gregório de Matos
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De dois ff se compõeesta cidade a meu ver:um furtar, outro foder.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out.
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- Author Nick Hornby
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How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.
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