“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.”
Bill Gilbert
“The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is”
George Carlin
“Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
Quentin Crisp
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying”
Bobbie Gentry
“The Good Book / one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.”
Ashley Montagu
“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses”
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
Dejan Stojanovic
