Patrick Ness Quotes

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army." "Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army." "That's SO not the point!

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and 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.

Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.

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

The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

Actually, I didn't say that.

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

There is something indecent in words .

you're the liar" - Mimi Force

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with.