Top 76 Euphemism In Quotes
#1. Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
Muriel Spark
#2. "Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
Ron Perlman
#4. Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
Marge Piercy
#5. In terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
Helen Caldicott
#6. Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens.
Michael Pollan
#7. Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
Alan Dershowitz
#8. Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
Evgeny Morozov
#9. I'm not psycho...I just like psychotic things.
Gerard Way
#10. "Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass."
George Carlin
#11. Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.
James Surowiecki
#12. There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms.
Tina Fey
#13. Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.
Henry M. Christman
#15. A lot of nonsense is spoken at funerals, especially when the deceased had not been well liked in life. Many euphemisms are called into play: "vital," "energetic," and (repetitively) "full of life.
G.M. Malliet
#16. To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
Al Gore
#17. Everybody out on the sidewalk is a pedestrian Mercedes, wallowing in entitlement - colliding, snarling, shoving ahead without even the hollow-to-begin-with local euphemism Excuse me.
Thomas Pynchon
#18. Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
Jacques Attali
#20. The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
Dylan Thomas
#21. I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.
Malcolm X
#22. The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
George Carlin
#23. Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Nigel Rees
#24. Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.
Jim Butcher
#26. 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 a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?
Tia Carrere
#27. And then she said, 'Let's play Truth or Dare' and then you fucked her."
"Wait, you fucked her? In front of the Colonel?" Takumi cried.
"I didn't fuck her."
"Calm down, guys," the Colonel said, throwing up his hands. "It's a euphemism."
"For what?" Takumi asked.
"Kissing.
John Green
#28. Gorton flu" quickly became a euphemism for pissed as a parrot.
Mungo MacCallum
#29. I'm resourceful," she called after him.
Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she'd left in the bucket. "A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals," he called out to her.
"If I were so successful," she called back, "I wouldn't be talking to you.
Roxanne Snopek
#30. World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#31. Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.
Dennis Prager
#32. He called us." "Dominick Rochester?" "Yes." "When?" "Last night. He said he met with you." Met, Myron thought. Nice euphemism.
Harlan Coben
#33. The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
Richard Corliss
#34. It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.
Jenny Lawson
#35. Dated" in Selah's book, being a euphemism for "had enthusiastic and frequent sex with".
Charlaine Harris
#36. Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip of the bed above her with my Kindle drawing power from her USB port - um, not a euphemism - reading "The Dragon-Song Chronicles" for the fourth time.
Robin Sloan
#37. 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.
Matthew Scully
#38. When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Margaret Halsey
#39. Her Squire, Celena, Ms. Blood Rite, I-kill-anything-that-breaks-formation, is on her way over here to have a word with you. Since Celena isn't real big on conversation, I'm taking that as a euphemism for 'kick your ass.' (Rafael)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
John Green
#42. Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#43. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
Robert Hughes
#44. 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 don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."
Steve Kangas
#45. 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 health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.
Greg Gutfeld
#46. I was feeling low. Low is the depressive's euphemism for despair.
Sally Brampton
#47. To this day the f-word turns my stomach. Because 'fine' is a euphemism for everything you're scared of saying.
Amy Molloy
#48. Tug the pug? Wax his ax? Wobble his knob? "Did you guys hold a Who Can Come Up with the Worst Euphemism contest at some point and not invite me?" he called up
Julie Ann Walker
#49. You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
Terry Pratchett
#50. I've never been a fan of euphemism.
Jo Brand
#51. When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.
Greg Giraldo
#52. Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
Kevin Smith
#53. A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas - its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society.
Noam Chomsky
#54. Democracy has become Empire's euphemism for neo-liberal capitalism.
Arundhati Roy
#55. So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.
Dorothy Parker
#56. I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.
Chelsea Handler
#57. 'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
Andrea Dworkin
#58. Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
Jasper Fforde
#59. What marks the transition from non-sentient to sentient beings? A model of increasing complexity based on evolution through natural selection is simply a descriptive hypothesis, a kind of euphemism for "mystery," and not a satisfactory explanation.
Dalai Lama XIV
#60. Clouds and Rain' is a Chinese euphemism for sex. 'The Bringer of Clouds and Rain' is a lady of the night, a prostitute,
Zahra Owens
#61. Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Kate Burridge
#62. Every now and then a green dot shifted to yellow. A soldier down, their armored suits detecting the injuries or death that rendered them combat ineffective. Combat ineffective. Such a nice euphemism for one of his kids bleeding out.
James S.A. Corey
#63. The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#64. She hated that many of her colleagues hid behind the title "Planned Parenthood." That was a euphemism. "It irks my very soul and all that is Irish in me to acquiesce to the appeasement group that is so prevalent in our beloved organization," she wrote.
David Halberstam
#65. Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
J.D. Salinger
#67. Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
Kathy Shaidle
#70. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!
Edith Hahn Beer
#71. A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly
#72. In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Annie Jacobsen
#73. Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don't like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.
Barbara Browning
#74. Which statements are true according to the passage?
A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted.
B) 'Comforting her deep into the night' is a euphemism for sneaking candy.
C) The ugliest phrase used in this passage is 'female.'
D) Bad things really do come in threes.
Tupelo Hassman
#75. There is an affinity between falling asleep and dying that cannot be ignored. In fact, the word sleep is commonly used as a euphemism for "death"; we speak of putting a pet to sleep, rather than admitting we have asked a veterinarian to (kindly) kill him or her.
Anonymous
#76. All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
Kate Burridge
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