A Quote by Kate Burridge

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Kate Burridge

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Kate Burridge
Australian - Scientist
Born: December 27, 1957

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Paul Johnson

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

Carl Jung

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Henry Fielding

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

William Shakespeare

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Alan Dershowitz

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Paul Kenneth Keller

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

Ovid

So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

Lisa Kleypas

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

E-40

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

Scott McClellan

But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

Anais Nin

As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

Steve Breen

A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

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