Quotes Tagged With :euphemism

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of....

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth....

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

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

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us....

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

Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels,No one....

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.