Quotes Tagged With :euphemisms

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

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

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

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive....

Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually....

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to....

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate,....