Steven Pinker Quotes

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

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

I grew up cursing a lot.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

I can swear like a fishwife.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

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

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

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

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

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

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

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.

It's a sin to swear.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

I swear like a sailor.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

By the tits of Holy Agnes

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

The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.