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Understatement Quotes

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Muffled lives explode in understatements.

Paul Gray
Understatement

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

Steven Harrison
Lost Everything, Transformation, Understatement

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

Marie Lu
Years, Yeah, Understatement

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

George Steiner
Language, Understatement
George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Sara Genn
Art, Craftsman, Understatement

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Jim Davis
Comedy, Contribution, Understatement

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

Ben Watt
Modus Operandi, Pops, Understatement
Source: thequietus.com

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