“Gotta run. Have a murder to plan. Busy day.”— Andrew Chambliss, Damon Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder, imdb.com
“I advocate understatement. Search for subtlety, dare to pass as someone reserved, refuse the stereotypes of sexiness. That way, you will spread fever only where it deserves to be.”— Jean Touitou, theguardian.com
“The term ‘litotes’ is sometimes reserved for a particular kind of understatement in which the speaker uses a negative expression where a positive one would have been more forceful and direct: ‘It’s not bad’; ‘He’s no Hercules’; ‘She’s no oil painting’; ‘She’s not exactly a pauper’; etc. These resemb…”— Geoffrey N. Leech, amazon.com