Euphemisms Quote by William Vickery, Canadian Nobel laureate, The Cult of Impotence, by Linda McQuaig

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

— Ashley Montagu

There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.

— Ben Bernanke

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably…

— William Vickrey

“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

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

“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

“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

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

— Quentin Crisp

Being fat just a fact. It feels important to me to speak the truth about that, and to not use a euphemism. Euphemisms are…

— Lindy West

I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.

— Don Cornelius