Edward Bellamy Quotes

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Blasphemy against God, denying our Savior Jesus Christ to be the son of God, or denying the Holy Trinity, or the Godhead of any of the Three Persons ... to be punished with Death, and Confiscation of Lands and Goods.

Irreverence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many things in my shows that could be considered risque... at the time... right up until my 90s.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

I just like swearing and being cheeky.