“Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.” — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. — Quentin Crisp 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
'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for… — Don Cornelius 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
“Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.” — Kathy Shaidle Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Kamala and Maya's Big Idea' because I don't want my daughters to think in euphemisms. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
“I was not a fan of euphemisms. If you couldn’t say it, you shouldn’t touch it, and definitely not fuck it or… — Roe Horvat 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
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
“She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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… — Anonymous 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
It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A lot of nonsense is spoken at funerals, especially when the deceased had not been well liked in life. Many euphemisms are… — G.M. Malliet 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
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense. — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
“Words like lucky and advantages we knew, even at our young age, were upscale euphemisms for not poor, not the son of… — Hannah Pittard Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
