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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Swearing |
| A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out. MS. of Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino. Found in an article on Dante. Selections from Edinburgh Review. Vol. I. P. 67. | 1 |
| Jack was embarrassed—never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore. Byron—The Island. Canto III. St. 5. | 2 |
| Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though “Bother it” I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big D. W. S. Gilbert—H. M. S. Pinafore. | 3 |
| Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain; It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. Herbert—Temple. Church Porch. St. 10. | 4 |
| There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel’s pen Ere Mercy weeps them out again. Moore—Lalla Rookh. Paradise and the Peri. | 5 |
| And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult’s not on man, but God? Pope—Epilogue to Satires. Dialogue II. L. 199. | 6 |
| In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit. To swear, except when necessary, is unbecoming to an honorable man. Quintilian—De Institutione Oratoria. IX. 2. | 7 |
| And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 3. | 8 |
| When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 11. | 9 |
| I’ll be damned for never a king’s son in Christendom. Henry IV. Part I. Act. I. Sc. 2. L. 109. | 10 |
| That in the captain’s but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Measure far Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 130. | 11 |
| Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I’ll believe thee. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 112. | 12 |
| For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 196. | 13 |
| “He shall not die, by God,” cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne—Tristram Shandy. Bk. VI. Ch. VIII. | 14 |
| Our armies swore terribly in Flanders. Sterne—Tristram Shandy. Bk. III. Ch. XI. | 15 |
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