A Quote by Peter Capaldi

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

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Between Clever In-Between Just Linguistic Mechanics Much Piece Swearing Thing Too Too Much Words

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Peter Capaldi
Scottish - Actor
Born: April 14, 1958

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

Peter Capaldi

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

Steven Moffat

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

Wayne Rooney

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

Dylan Moran

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

Jerome K. Jerome

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

Eva Marie Saint

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Tim Vine

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Coleman Young

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

Hutch Harris

The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

Ashley Montagu

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Finley Peter Dunne

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

Jimmy Greaves

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jim Dale

When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."