Euphemism Quotations | Page 2

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

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

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

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

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.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.