Quotes About Euphemism

Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

Payola is the year's new word.  It doesn't sound as ugly as bribe, but it means the same thing.

Euphemism, n.  A figure of speech in which the speaker or writer makes his expression a good deal softer than the facts would warrant him in doing.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Using euphemisms is the verbal equivalent of draping nude statues.  Doing so substitutes unthreatening words for ones that make us fidget.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser [sic]?