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Swearing Quotes

Nay, let me alone for swearing.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4. Defending his manhood to Toby, Sir Andrew boasts that he is really good at cursing.

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.

– Jason Bateman

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

– Andy Richter

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

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

– Jimmy Greaves

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

– Rutherford B. Hayes

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films – that is death; it’s a cul-de-sac. It doesn’t lift the material at all. It’s just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.

– Pawel Pawlikowski

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