Dorothy Parker Quotes

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

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

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.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

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

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

People tend to call me names that I can't repeat on basic cable. I will give you a hint. They rhyme with itch, hunt, & bore.

Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive.

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.

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

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

I can swear like a fishwife.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

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.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

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

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.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

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.