87 Quotes About Swearing

  • Author Katie Kennedy
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    It's not safe to know how to swear but not how to deal with people," Dovie said. "It's like walking around with your mouth loaded and the safety off.

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  • Author patrick dennis
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    She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

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  • Author Becky Albertalli
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    Of all fuckin' days""Okay, please don't say fuckin'."She shoots me a self-conscious glance. "I thought we liked cussing.""We love cussing. But we say the fucking g. I don't want to hear that apostrophe, Mom.

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  • Author Stephen Fry
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    I hate it when people say swearing isn't necessary. Things not being necessary is what makes life interesting, the little extras in life.

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  • Author Zizou Corder
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    Charlie wanted to swear. ****, he thought, remembering how his father had told him that one reason you shouldn't swear is because then when you really need a strong word to express a strong feeling you would have none strong enough left.

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  • Author Aaron Burch
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    In general, there are usually two reasons to swear--to get someone's attention and because it's fun.

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  • Author John Scalzi
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    In the early evening of the second day, Andrea Gell-Man introduced the 8th to the concept of profanity, which she picked up at lunch and shared just before dinner. At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cock-suckers, because it gold old pretty goddamn quick. There was a general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic.

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