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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Alice James
I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
Helena Bonham Carter
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
Proverb
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Jeremy Taylor
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
Jonathan Swift
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Henry Miller
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
Lawrence Durrell
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. Chesterton
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Dame Edith Sitwell
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
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.
George Washington
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest Hemingway
