“I solemnly swear I am up to no good.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter.
“The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.”
Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
Vittorio Alfieri
“Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed”
Mark Twain
“A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?”
Jonathan Swift
"That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
William Shakespeare
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroghs
“Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.”
John Ruskin
