British Understatement Quotes

#1. At SGI board meetings ... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

Michael Lewis

#2. I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Garrison Keillor

#3. Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. A lion walks alone. He does not need a pack of wolves to follow him.

Amit Abraham

#5. Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

John Bingham

#6. In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

Julie Murphy

#7. In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

Jennifer Lawrence

#8. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Beatrix Potter

#9. Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Salman Rushdie

#10. As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Alexander McQueen

#11. It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

Charles Osgood

#12. Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?

Jack Kerouac