Litotes Quotes

#1. Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Resolution demands a sacrifice.

Stephen King

#3. Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Oliver Herford

#4. Your wit makes others witty.

Catherine The Great

#5. I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

Stanislaw Ulam

#6. All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

Gerald Durrell

#8. Some people watch the world with their ears.

Matt De La Pena

#9. An artist must either give up art or develop.

Pauline Kael

#10. Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz ... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Aloe Blacc

#11. Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

Ellis

#12. We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

Anthony Marra