Swear Word Quotes

Swear Word Quotes by Sarah Silverman, Franz Grillparzer, Bill Watterson, Patricia Briggs, Nadine Shah, Irene Dunne and many others.

When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious

When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I’ve been chasing it ever since.
Sarah Silverman
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
Franz Grillparzer
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
Bill Watterson
Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like “blackguard” and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said “bunny rabbit” in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.
Patricia Briggs
“Immigrant” has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It’s not a curse or a swear word. It’s not a dirty word and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.
Nadine Shah
I know all the swear words. I just don’t use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
Irene Dunne
I’ve got to learn French because I’ve been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.
Clint Eastwood
Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
Billy Connolly
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
Paul Theroux
There are times over different projects when I’ve asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren’t these swear words.
John Ratzenberger
Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.
Richard Harris
I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you’re not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it’s one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.
Peter Jacobson
I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I’m obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.
Hayley Williams
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
Benedict Cumberbatch
But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I’d learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don’t use them. So I declined
Irene Dunne
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Ray Bradbury
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
Ernest Hemingway
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem. I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
Bill Watterson
I am fully aware of what the word ‘fat’ means … It’s a swear word. It’s a weapon. It’s a sociological subspecies. It’s an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.
Caitlin Moran
I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth
James Patterson