Understatement Synonym Quotes

#1. He that lends, gives.

George Herbert

#2. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Moliere

#3. But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.

Gerald Durrell

#4. Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!

Legs McNeil

#5. Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to be with Christ.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#6. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Have you seen The Man Who Fell to Earth?" Charlie's face was hot, his asthma tightening his throat. "I realize that maybe sounds like a metaphor, but you listen to David Bowie, he's thinking about what people will face in the future.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#8. Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by ... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

Gaines Adams

#9. Garden is garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

Joseph Addison

#11. Despite our difficulties, we had become close, and it is hard to leave such things behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Casey James

#13. All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

Horace

#14. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat.

Amy Tan