There are no fourletter ordsprog

en There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

en Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.
  Red Skelton

en Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
  Dame Edith Sitwell

en And I can remember that extraordinary moment when you first see the words, instead of having to make them out letter by letter.

en It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
  Oscar Wilde

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything. When you look at the game, it's not structured for words. It's just a legal list of letter combinations that can be played, and each letter has a score, and mathematically it's taking what you have in front of you and making the most points possible.

en Modern dancing is old fashioned.
  Samuel Goldwyn

en Modern dancing is old fashioned.
  Samuel Goldwyn

en Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
  Max Beerbohm

en Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes
  Cole Porter

en Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly
  Oscar Wilde

en People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

en X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name
--_Xristos_. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary.
  Ambrose Bierce

en My problem is that this issue of romantic attraction between two men is being presented to my 7-year-old as wonderful and good and the way things should be. We feel like 7 years old is not appropriate to introduce homosexual themes.

en I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
  Coco Chanel


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