Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Here's what I'm curious about. For the president of Mexico, this man, Donald Trump, is, it's probably not an understatement to say,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary. — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story. — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and… — Steven Harrison Copy Share Image
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a… — Roy Scheider Copy Share Image
Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of… — Steven M. Greer Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin.… — Amber Rose Copy Share Image
I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
“My wife said you would be here,” he muttered lowly. “You and a boy … though I don’t think this counts as… — Jane Washington Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
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