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Quotes Tagged "euphemism"

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
— Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood
Tags: thighs, shipwreck, sex, poem, naughty, love, euphemism
How is it possible to have a civil war?
— George Carlin
Tags: war, terminology, humor, funny, euphemism
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
— Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Tags: political-correctness, humor, evil, euphemism
Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Tags: wisdom, wilderness, unpolished, truth, thoughts, quotes, polished, poetry-quotes, poetry, outcry, nature, literature-quotes, literature, euphemism, dejan-stojanovic, art
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.
— Steve Allen How to be funny
Tags: humor, euphemism, death, comedy
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
— Fred W. Friendly
Tags: composite, euphemism, dishonest, journalism, lie
'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'
— James Nesbitt
Tags: euphemism, spoilt, loved
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