Timothy West Quotes

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate.

I probably shouldn't curse as much as I do.

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Obscenity comes from grime.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.