Euphemism Quote by Kathy Shaidle

Al Sharpton came to fame by perpetuating a racial fraud, basically waving the racial bloody red shirt, and that's what unfortunately too many Democrats…

— Niger Innis

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that…

— James Gosling

“I need to stop renaming the decisions I've made as mistakes just because I wish I could take them back.”

— Alicia Cook

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

— Mason Cooley

“Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of…

— Bill Bryson

“To this day the f-word turns my stomach. Because 'fine' is a euphemism for everything you're scared of saying.”

— Amy Molloy

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

— Quentin Crisp

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 protests: "Why…

— Steve Kangas

“Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.”

— Bergen Evans

“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

“Words like lucky and advantages we knew, even at our young age, were upscale euphemisms for not poor, not the son of a drunk…

— Hannah Pittard

“I was not a fan of euphemisms. If you couldn’t say it, you shouldn’t touch it, and definitely not fuck it or lick it.…

— Roe Horvat