Swearing

Council; how they Bann'd, (an _Atalantis_ Word used there, for what we call Swearing and Damning in our Country;) how they raged at

Atalantis Major Daniel Defoe 1696

Sarah Josepha Hale, another Victorian, said, "Swearing is considered so inadmissible in good society, or in the presence of ladies, that there is little danger of its being introduced in either."

Inspiring Quotes From Victorians 2008

Sarah Josepha Hale, another Victorian, said, "Swearing is considered so inadmissible in good society, or in the presence of ladies, that there is little danger of its being introduced in either."

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

Sarah Josepha Hale, another Victorian, said, "Swearing is considered so inadmissible in good society, or in the presence of ladies, that there is little danger of its being introduced in either."

Inspiring Quotes From Victorians 2008

Swearing is an art form, and if it makes you blush, well, as a wise man once said, "I am not innarested in your condition."

An A-Z Of This Blog Hal Duncan 2007

Swearing is an art form, and if it makes you blush, well, as a wise man once said, "I am not innarested in your condition."

Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Swearing is accepted more in upper - and working-class families.

Archive 2005-02-01 2005

Swearing is accepted more in upper - and working-class families.

February 2005 2005

Swearing is penalized by referees with various degrees of rigor.

Boing Boing: March 28, 2004 - April 3, 2004 Archives 2004

"Swearing is a dreadful vice," said I, "and, wicked as it is in the mouth of a grown-up person, it is perfectly shocking in a child; it painfully tells he has been brought up without the fear of God."

Roughing It in the Bush 1852