Euphemism Quotes

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. - Andrea Dworkin

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling. - David Morrison

What we couldn't accept was the new mandatory spending under this bill, which would open the federal purse to developers... Reforming the law should not be a euphemism for gutting the law, and that's exactly what the bill would do. - Sherwood Boehlert

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - Quentin Crisp

This was a mugging couched in euphemisms. - Tom Petersen

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is. - George Carlin