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euphemism

«Audubon biographers and scholars [have noted], by various euphemisms, that all great men have their flaws, and their man's principal flaw was that he, well, he lied a lot.»

Author: Bill Gilbert | Keywords: Audubon, biographer, biographers, euphemism, euphemisms, flaw, lied, noted, principal, scholars

«Euphemism is a euphemism for lying»

Author: Bobbie Gentry (Singer, Song Writer) | Keywords: euphemism, euphemisms

«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.»

Author: Elizabeth Hardwick | Keywords: at hand, bureaucratic, coherent, euphemism, euphemisms, military power, repudiation

«A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.»

Author: Fred Friendly (Producer) | About: Lies| Keywords: composite, composites, dishonest, disorderly, euphemism, euphemisms

«Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats»

Author: Marge Piercy | About: Marriage, Relationships| Keywords: euphemism, euphemisms, tantamount

«Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition»

Author: Paul Keller (Journalist, Writer) | About: Faith, Religion| Keywords: euphemism, euphemisms

«Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.»

Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | About: Euphemisms| Keywords: cologne, diplomatic, euphemism, euphemisms, unpleasant

«Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head»

Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | About: Euphemisms, Youth| Keywords: agents, airily, barely, bluntly, euphemism, euphemisms, nod, pass by, secret agent, secret agents, stinking, verbiage

«The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is»

Author: George Carlin (Actor, Author, Comedian) | About: Euphemisms| Keywords: divorced, divorces, divorcing, euphemism, euphemisms, further, syllables

«Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses»

Author: Quentin Crisp (Author) | About: Intelligence| Keywords: dab, euphemism, euphemisms, powerless

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