Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
Jasper FfordeTags: humor evil political-correctness euphemism
I'm not psycho...I just like psychotic things.
Gerard WayIt'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 SonnenblickTags: humor parents euphemism arguments
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 PratchettTags: humour dinosaurs political-correctness euphemism
How is it possible to have a civil war?
George CarlinTags: humor war funny terminology euphemism
You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
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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 BramahTags: distraction china euphemism bramah sayers strong-poison
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 HitchensTags: violence euphemism edward-said tel-aviv
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 ThomasTags: love sex poem naughty euphemism thighs shipwreck
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 ScullyTags: reason morality conflict euphemism
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