As a Norwegian, I find English profanity to be pretty tame. It all means the same, but I think we have more pathos: "May the devil take you" and "go hang yourself" has to be the highlights....
Bessie Braddock to Churchill -- "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"
Edit: there was a great one on TV yesterday, one politician was commenting on the former London Mayor Boris Johnson's stance in the upcoming referendum on the UK's continued membership of the EU and said: "He is far too intelligent to believe what he said."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36401104
Winston S. Churchill — 'Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.'
Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
"Devil" is very mild profanity as a noun. It's stronger as an intensifier: "What the devil are you doing?!".
I'm British and live in Denmark. Danes swear in English far more than they should, perhaps because they learn all the strongest words from American TV, where swearing replaces humour...