The loud type of vulgarity. [ Emerson ]

Immodest words admit of no defence. [ Pope ]

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. [ William Shakespeare ]

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. [ Pope ]

There can be no profanity where there is no fane behind. [ Thoreau ]

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. [ Joseph Cook ]

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

When a gentleman is disposed to swear it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. [ William Shakespeare ]

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. [ Hosea Ballou ]

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than a way of braying? [ Sir Roger L'Estrange ]

From a common custom of swearing men easily slide into perjury; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use thyself to swear. [ Hierocles ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

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 ]

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]