Diminutive Quotes

#1. I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture.

Lee Clow

#2. But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Confronted with the truly microscopic, all loftiness is hopeless, completely meaningless. The diminutive of the parts is more impressive than the monumentality of the whole. I no longer have any use for the sweeping gestures of heroes on the global stage. I'm going for a walk.

Joseph Roth

#4. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who

Jonathan Swift

#5. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them.

Jonathan Swift

#6. Diminutive worlds are more likely to be rocky, and lapped by oceans and atmospheres. In the vernacular of 'Star Trek,' these would be M-class planets: life-friendly oases where biology could begin and bumpy-faced Klingons might exist.

Seth Shostak

#7. In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming spirits of primitive imagination.

Lewis Spence

#8. She's smiling, a bright diminutive smile. Her eyes have come loose.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I doubt whether there would be many readers for a post-holocaust novel that was concerned with the hero's desperate search for a mite. But alas for the world if the mites and their diminutive allies failed to prosper!

Richard Fortey

#10. diminutive Mr. B was a private eye. The

James Patterson

#11. A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.

Tim Gunn

#12. Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

Dan Brown

#13. I like her explanation better than just being a diminutive
of someone else.

Thalia Chaltas

#14. We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

Jerome Hines

#15. The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.

Anne Rice

#16. She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.

Isabella Bird

#18. I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

Agatha Christie

#19. When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Hoda Kotb

#20. The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Alex Shoumatoff

#21. For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

William Shakespeare

#22. It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

William Safire

#23. Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.

Nivedita Menon

#25. My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.

Misha Glenny

#26. It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

John Donne

#27. In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

Vladimir Nabokov

#28. The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.

Jared Farmer

#29. Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

Garry Trudeau

#30. The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

William Makepeace Thackeray