Dirty Word

Famous quotes containing the words dirty word, dirty and/or word:

    “When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that’s a real big liberation.”
    —Lina Wertmuller (b. 1928)

    “The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
    So rudely forced: yet there the nightingale
    Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
    And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
    “Jug Jug” to dirty ears.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
    —Richard Bentley (1662–1742)