Quotes About Understatements

#1. Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

Sara Genn

#2. I am constantly amazed by you," he said. "To say that you view the world through rose-colored glasses would be the greatest of understatements. You don't just see things tinted in pink; you see a world that is pink all the way through.

Courtney Milan

#3. To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries."
Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries."
"Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with
the understatements now?

Rachel Vincent

#5. Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

Yasmine Bleeth

#6. I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

Brigitte Bardot

#7. And then Gabe did something incredible.
He pulled me into his arms and hugged me.
And I cried into his chest.
I cried in the arms of my tormenter.
I cried like he was my savior.
When he was the cause of it all.

Rachel Van Dyken

#8. Jesus ... It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.

Kevin Hearne

#9. My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#10. What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations - you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

Maria Callas

#11. Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#12. Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

Andrew Strauss

#13. Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.
If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition.

C.S. Friedman

#14. Just because those around you do not constantly tell you what they are going through in their personal life, it does not mean they are living in a fairytale.

Auliq Ice

#15. We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward." ... "Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.

C.S. Friedman

#16. All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma.
-Andreas Corelli

Carlos Ruiz Zafon