Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Jasper Fforde

Stichwörter: humor evil political-correctness euphemism



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I'm not psycho...I just like psychotic things.

Gerard Way

Stichwörter: euphemism labels



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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".

Jordan Sonnenblick

Stichwörter: humor parents euphemism arguments



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You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Terry Pratchett

Stichwörter: humour dinosaurs political-correctness euphemism



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How is it possible to have a civil war?

George Carlin

Stichwörter: humor war funny terminology euphemism



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You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

J.R. Ward

Stichwörter: dark comedy manipulation brothers euphemism label



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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?

Ernest Bramah

Stichwörter: distraction china euphemism bramah sayers strong-poison



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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.

Christopher Hitchens

Stichwörter: violence euphemism edward-said tel-aviv



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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

Stichwörter: love sex poem naughty euphemism thighs shipwreck



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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.

Matthew Scully

Stichwörter: reason morality conflict euphemism



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