Profanity

"Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And Ill believe thee."

"Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big D."

"Jack was embarrassed—never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore."

"There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angels pen Ere Mercy weeps them out again."

"And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure."

"I’m always amused by those commentators who nervously insist that the working class’s constant use of the word fuck is really just “a form of punctuation.” It is, however, no more or less then what they dread: an inexhaustible river of smelted wrath, a Phlegethon of ancestral grievance."

"When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths."

"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders."

"He shall not die, by God," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heavens chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever."

"In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit."

"And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insults not on man, but God?"

"A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out."