Top 157 Swearing Quotes & Sayings

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

I just like swearing and being cheeky.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

Modi invite me for his swearing in ceremony and I did attend it.

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

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

Swearing when in heavy traffic.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

I lived with a 60-year-old chaperone, and drinking, swearing and smoking were absolutely forbidden - even in the house.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?

To be honest, I used to hate shopping. I rarely left a store without crying, cursing my body, and swearing under my breath at the fashion industry.

My mom was really good at swearing growing up.

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

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."

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.

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!

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.

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first?

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

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

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

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

The idea that my mother would go around swearing after a personal setback is ridiculous.

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

I won the Premier League and played for England but it seems everyone always remembers me best for swearing live on BBC One on a Sunday afternoon.

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Men put all kinds of expectations on you. They want you to scream 'You're the best' while swearing you've never done this with anyone before.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

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.

The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.

Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.

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.

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

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.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.

Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

There are ways of swearing that express all of your love and emotions.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

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

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.

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!

Every time you come to Glasgow, it is going to be tough because the crowd don't like me. When they are swearing at you and booing, it's hard.