Euphemisms are not,...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

WRITERS A-H > author > Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are not,...

Vendor: WRITERS A-H

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head . . .

Source: Manners from Heaven, ch. 5 (1984).
-- Quentin Crisp, (Dec 25 1908-1999), English author; He is noted for his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, 1968.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA