Euphemism Quotes
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![Jasper Fforde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1528718375i/4432._UY200_CR25,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.”
― The Eyre Affair
― The Eyre Affair
![Dylan Thomas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1529530232i/57189._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
― Under Milk Wood
― Under Milk Wood
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.”
― Johnny and the Bomb
― Johnny and the Bomb
![Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1510007132i/4533716._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
![Jordan Sonnenblick](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233601592i/183005.jpg)
“It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".”
― Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
― Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
![Chelsea Handler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1276289932i/20357._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.”
― My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
― My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
![Matthew Scully](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234634662i/4857._UY200_CR27,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.”
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
![Ernest Bramah](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1339898729i/92718._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?”
― Kai Lung's Golden Hours
― Kai Lung's Golden Hours
![Noam Chomsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651867540i/2476._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia. It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.”
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“Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.”
― Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights
― Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Steve Allen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299280298i/7106._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.”
― How to Be Funny
― How to Be Funny
“It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.”
― Bitterblue
― Bitterblue
![Hannah Arendt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1608634661i/12806._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“None of the various 'language rules,' carefully contrived to deceive and to camouflage, had a more decisive effect on the mentality of the killers than this first war decree of Hitler, in which the word for 'murder' was replaced by the phrase 'to grant a mercy death.' Eichmann, asked by the police examiner if the directive to avoid 'unnecessary hardships' was not a bit ironic, in view of the fact that the destination of these people was certain death anyhow, did not even understand the question, so firmly was it still anchored in his mind that the unforgivable sin was not to kill people but to cause unnecessary pain.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
![McCaid Paul](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1672701439i/17433612._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Worryin’ is like sitting in a rockin’ chair. It don’t get you no further down the road.”
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
― Sweet Tea & Snap Peas
![Michael Bassey Johnson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1614091882i/7189272._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Euphemisms are used by individuals who try so hard to mince words or aren’t bold enough to say the truth or sound outrageous.”
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
![Jamie Delano](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1346323839i/6153795._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“In Hell, Nergal once tormented a murderous, deceitful soul-- one Sunderland. He spoke a secret language to disguise his crimes. In his world, assassination was cosmeticized. To kill was to 'terminate with extreme prejudice.”
― Hellblazer #6
― Hellblazer #6
![Sarah Tolmie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651515848i/7736893._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Euphemism is the cheapest metaphor
In the aisle of the dollar store
Along with the headless Barbies and obscure bits of bright plastic.”
― The Art of Dying (Volume 41)
In the aisle of the dollar store
Along with the headless Barbies and obscure bits of bright plastic.”
― The Art of Dying (Volume 41)
“Demi-monde- which is French for “half-world” and an old euphemism, according to Miss Redmayne who teaches humanities, for any sexually active woman who failed to conform to the strict patriarchal gender norms that permeated French society in the dark days before Tinder.”
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![Donna Leon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208207578i/16290.jpg)
“In another culture, Giuliano Marcolini might have been described as fat: Italians, however, graced with a language from which euphemism springs with endless sympathy, would describe him as 'robusto'.”
― Suffer the Little Children
― Suffer the Little Children
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