Quotes of Understatement - somelinesforyou

“ I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement. ”

- John Hurt

“ Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. ”

- Stefan Kanfer

“ A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. ”

- Russell Page

“ I'd enjoyed playing the part enormously; it's not often in an actor's career that he gets a plum part like Doctor Who, and to say that I foresaw myself going on a little longer is a bit of an understatement. ”

- Colin Baker

“ To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan. ”

- George Voinovich
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