Richard Pryor Quotes

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

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.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Obscenity comes from grime.

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

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

It's a sin to swear.

I never heard of such a vile, profane man.

God's name is not considered good at the banks

I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

Calling yourself God is blasphemous, but calling yourself demon isn't.

I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.