Deceiving Quote by Kate Burridge

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among…

— Malcolm X

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

— Kate Burridge

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

— Kate Burridge

“I sense that the chocolate chips have hit the fan.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use…

— Tia Carrere

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal

When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with…

— Greg Giraldo

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.…

— Henry Hazlitt

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well…

— Steven Pinker

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

— John Green

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact…

— David Foster Wallace

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive…

— Greg Gutfeld