“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. — Andrea Dworkin 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
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. — Evgeny Morozov 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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