Cologne Quote by Quentin Crisp

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

— Quentin Crisp

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

— Scott McClellan

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Quentin Crisp

“Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.”

— Kathy Shaidle

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

— Byron Dorgan

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

— Amy Molloy

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