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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
-Proverb
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
-Ambrose Bierce
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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
-Helena Bonham Carter
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
-Cyril Connolly
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
-William Cowper
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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.
-Lawrence Durrell
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
-Euripides
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
-George Farquhar
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
-E. M. Forster
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
-Edward Gibbon
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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
-Thomas Hardy
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Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
-Ernest Hemingway
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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.
-Ernest Hemingway
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
-Alice James
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
-Herbert Marcuse
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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
-Henry Miller
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
-William Nazlitt
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
-Alexander Pope
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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
-John Ruskin
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
-Bertrand Russell
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
-George Santayana
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Books about Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
