Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction. — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. — Fred W. Friendly Copy Share Image
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don’t like to talk about sex, so they displace… — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the… — David Katz Copy Share Image
“Wait what do you mean by lovelies?” The pretty blush crawls across her collarbone. “Shut up. Don’t make fun of my euphemism.”… — M.K. Schiller Copy Share Image
“I’m assuming your cherry has been thoroughly popped.” “Wrapped up, tossed into the lake, and died in a watery grave.” “Is that… — Taryn Quinn Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There was, of course, the dildo that I have described (though the device, or the instrument, was what I learned, following Diana,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image