Euphemism quotes
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The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.
-- Brian Billick -
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
-- Fred W. Friendly -
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 -
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
-- Jacques Attali -
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Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.
-- James Nesbitt -
I've never been a fan of euphemism.
-- Jo Brand -
Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
-- Muriel Spark -
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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Euphemisms are for the differently brained.
-- Spider Robinson -
All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
-- Kate Burridge -
"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.
-- Ron Perlman
