Euphemism Quote by Paul Kenneth Keller

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it…

— Wallace Thurman

We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

— Isaac Barrow

“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

“We're going to go sit and chat." "Nice euphemism.”

— Tellulah Darling

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

— Alan Dershowitz

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

— Moliere