Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part…

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

— Bergen Evans

I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.

— Don Cornelius

'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's…

— Terry Wogan

“Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.”

— Kathy Shaidle

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

— Byron Dorgan

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents…

— Quentin Crisp

“To this day the f-word turns my stomach. Because 'fine' is a euphemism for everything you're scared of saying.”

— Amy Molloy

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

— Quentin Crisp

It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why…

— Steve Kangas

“The National Rate of Unemployment is one of the most vicious euphemisms ever coined.”

— William Vickery, Canadian Nobel laureate, The Cult of Impotence, by Linda McQuaig

“Words like lucky and advantages we knew, even at our young age, were upscale euphemisms for not poor, not the son of a drunk…

— Hannah Pittard

“I was not a fan of euphemisms. If you couldn’t say it, you shouldn’t touch it, and definitely not fuck it or lick it.…

— Roe Horvat

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

— Quentin Crisp

Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are…

— Lindy West

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

— Spider Robinson