Euphemism Quotes

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign o...

When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ ...

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

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary h...

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in...

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

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