Nathan Englander Quotes

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect. I use it like karate. I bring it out when it's needed.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

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

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.

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

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.

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

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.

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

I say something bad every day, but I like to swear sparingly because it has more impact.

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

People say I use foul language. I learnt swear words only from my father and YGP.

One of the worst things you could do in that world is curse at someone.