understatement Archive

You see, my darling girl, it isn’t quite done over here to parade one’s emotions so publicly. We as a race, on the whole, prefer to—understate. Do you understand my darling?—I was guilty of bad form, especially as, I think I did, I cried a bit when I told them… Oh damn

The English have no soul, they have the understatement instead. George Mikes, How to be an Alien, p.24 Favorite0