Euphemism Quotes

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"Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass." — George Carlin
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. — Marge Piercy
The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo… — Richard Dawkins
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition. — Paul Kenneth Keller
Users of clichÃ©s frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Patrick Cockburn
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered… — Plato
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway… — Dale Dauten
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and… — George Orwell
Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have… — Adam Schiff
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense. — Byron Dorgan
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. — Jacques Attali
In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead… — Henry Hazlitt
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass… — Martin Esslin
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is… — Elizabeth Hardwick
When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts,… — Matthew Scully
Euphemisms are for the differently brained. — Spider Robinson
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. — Fred W. Friendly
The intangibles are a euphemismÂ for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it. — Brian Billick
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly… — Thomas Szasz

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