“ It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with… Margaret Mitchell
“ I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heave… Col. Robert G. Ingersoll
“ We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion! David R. Palmer
“ I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, inst… Henry David Thoreau
“ Scummer, pox and wound rot! roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May e… Tamora Pierce
“ DAMNATION!'No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to his Egyptian workers by the admiring sobriquet of Father of… Elizabeth Peters
“ If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about! Lilian Jackson Braun
“ I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you tell me more about this 'profanity'?Mrs. Miller nodded at my dictionary. I'll assume you don't need a definition. Perhaps you'd prefer an example?That would be… Dale Peck
“ Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. Kurt Vonnegut
“ Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most. Kathleen Alcott
“ Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies. Betty Smith
