Top Euphemism Quotes

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Euphemism Definition

(n.) A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

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

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more, said Yo-less. It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Come, he said gently, for he knew she'd been through travail. I sought you out amongst your labors to bend my knee and plead that you leave the dust and spiders and mouse droppings to come and lounge...

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did...

When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted t...