{"quotes":[{"text":"...If you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!","author":"Lilian Jackson Braun","tags":["cats","profanity","swearing"],"id":7709,"author_id":"Lilian+Jackson+Braun"},{"text":"Damn, the good words are all asterisked!”“The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["asterisks","bad-words","lewd","poem","swearing"],"id":16465,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Yeah, it's kind of shitty,' I say. I add the shitty on purpose as a kind of a test. I’ve been using it a lot lately to weed the dangerous Christians out of my life: the ones who have the power to hurt me. Throw out a shit or a damn or a what the hell, and see if you get The Look. Watch to see if the person shifts uncomfortably or looks down at her hands … then you know: this is a Dangerous Christian. The kind who will not be able to handle the truth of your pain, the kind that requires some swearing.","author":"Addie Zierman","tags":["christianity","swearing"],"id":22862,"author_id":"Addie+Zierman"},{"text":"Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... Nothing actually happens.","author":"Richard Curtis","tags":["comedy","death","fuck","love","swearing","the-boat-that-rocked"],"id":45718,"author_id":"Richard+Curtis"},{"text":"Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was really saying, “Goodbye—God bless you.","author":"Betty Smith","tags":["emotion","swear-words","swearing"],"id":75465,"author_id":"Betty+Smith"},{"text":"Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["cabbie","laughter","pardon-my-french","religious","swearing"],"id":95582,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"See!” Dad yelled. “Boys don’t stay with whores, Bianca. They leave them. And I’m not going to let you turn into a whore. Not my daughter. This is for your own good.”I looked up as he reached a hand down to grab my arm. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting to feel his fingers clamp around my forearm.But they never did.I heard a loud thud, and Dad grunted in pain. My eyes flew open. Wesley moved away from Dad, who was massaging his jaw with a shocked look on his face. “Why you little shithead!”“Are you all right?” Wesley asked, kneeling in front of me.“Did you just punch my dad?” I couldn’t help but wonder if I was delirious. Had all of this really just happened? Totally bizarre.“Yes,” Wesley admitted.“How dare you touch me!” Dad screamed, but he was having trouble balancing enough to approach us again. “How dare you fuck my daughter, then hit me, you son of a bitch!”I’d never heard my father swear like that before.“Come on,” Wesley said, helping me to my feet. “Let’s get out of here. You’re coming with me.” He wrapped an arm around me, pulling me close against his warm body, and ushered me out the open door.","author":"Kody Keplinger","tags":["bianca-piper","dad","drunk","help","hit","insults","protect","punch","swearing","wesley-rush","whore"],"id":100601,"author_id":"Kody+Keplinger"},{"text":"Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing.'These is my words.","author":"Nancey E. Turner","tags":["marriage","swearing"],"id":103239,"author_id":"Nancey+E.+Turner"},{"text":"I looked up from the ground and glared at Scarlett, who helped Steven stand up. “You bitch.” I growled, sitting up. She looked back at me and walked over to where I was. I kept my glare on her, and just as I was about to stand up, her foot came and hit me in the face. I flung back around and my vision started to blur as my head hit the ground. I heard the squishing noise of Scarlett’s heels against the wet ground and her say her last words to me: “See you in a while, Aiyanna. We’ll do lunch.” And then they were gone, just like that. That’s when I couldn’t hold on any longer and I let the blackness consume me.","author":"Sara Massa","tags":["bitch","fight","swearing","villian"],"id":124804,"author_id":"Sara+Massa"},{"text":"I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.","author":"Diane Samuels","tags":["advice","family-relationships","kindertransport","languages-and-culture","play","swearing","teenagers-and-parents"],"id":177278,"author_id":"Diane+Samuels"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}