Diminutive Quotes

19 Diminutive quotes by 18 unique authors

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were… — Michael Persinger
We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing. — Jerome Hines
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,… — Augustus De Morgan
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. — John Donne
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other… — Gyorgy Lukacs
When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy. — Hoda Kotb
For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. — William Shakespeare
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading… — William Safire
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford
maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a… — E E Cummings
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… — Misha Glenny
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… — Alex Shoumatoff
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… — Dan Brown
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. — Nateman
Tiny diminutive shoulders and full-round breasts; smooth silky skin and curvaceous wide hips which flare our forming the shape of a heart; long long slender… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Diminutive Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Diminutive Quotes as follows: