The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. – Henry Miller Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon Category: Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. – Tahar Ben Jelloun Category: Politics
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. – Friedrich Nietzsche Category: good
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. – Benjamin Disraeli Category: Marriage
