Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.” — Henry M. Christman Copy Share Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it. — Brian Billick Copy Share Image
“He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism.… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To this day the f-word turns my stomach. Because 'fine' is a euphemism for everything you're scared of saying.” — Amy Molloy Copy Share Image
There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
“Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.” — Kathy Shaidle Copy Share Image
You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
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