Creating Quote by George Carlin

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

— Paul Johnson

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

— Kate Burridge

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

— Jo Brand

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

— Gunnar Myrdal

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

— Anonymous

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…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,…

— Leni Zumas

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

— Grace Paley

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and…

— John H. McWhorter

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

— Spider Robinson

“I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has nothing to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa