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“The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is”
George Carlin quotes (American stand-up Comedian, Actor and Author. b.1937)
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“Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition”
Paul Keller quotes (German Journalist and Writer. 1873-1932)
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“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying”
Bobbie Gentry quotes (American Singer and Song Writer, b.1944)

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“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
Fred Friendly quotes (American TV Producer, 1915-1998)
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“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 quotes (Australian art Critic and Author, b.1938)

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“To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.”
Al Gore quotes (American US Vice President under Bill Clinton (1993-2001). b.1948)

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“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.”
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“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats”
Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )
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“''Women's fashion'' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.”
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“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses”
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
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“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”
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
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“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.”
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“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
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“The Good Book / one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.”
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