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It must never be forgotten that all Art has the aim or object of seeming and not of being; and that to understate is as bad as to overstate the modesty or the efflorescence of Nature. It is not possible to show within the scope of any Art the entire complexity and the myriad combining influences of Nature.
Her idealistic nature had received a painful shock on the discovery of the yellow streak in Bream. To call it a yellow streak was to understate the facts. It was a great belt of saffron encircling his whole soul.
Bines "just anything he lays out to do." They talked until late into the night of what he should "lay out" to do. Meantime the stronghold of Mauburn's optimism was being desperately stormed. In an evening paper he had read of Percival's losses. The afternoon press of New York is not apt to understate the facts of a given case.
He strapped the suit-case and put it on a chair. "A curious lady, Miss Rockmetteller, sir." "You understate it, Jeeves." He gazed meditatively out of the window. "In many ways, sir, Miss Rockmetteller reminds me of an aunt of mine who resides in the south-east portion of London. Their temperaments are much alike. My aunt has the same taste for the pleasures of the great city.
In the Standarak-Landholm Fjord thank heavens. Heavens! we have had a time. We were still two hundred and fifty miles from the coast when we were caught by the gale. And a gale up here is a gale, and no second thoughts about it. To say it blew with the force of ten thousand devils is to understate the case.
'Yet all this misery, all these misfortunes, may be avoided, and you yourself become a calm and happy man, by for I wish not to understate your view of the subject, Armine putting yourself under a pecuniary obligation to me.
To say that he rose at four, asserts a biographer, would be to understate the case; he was frequently in the fields at half-past two in the early summer dawn of England, always before his laborers, and he was not pleased if his male guests did not appear by six. To ladies he was more tolerant.
He had been on cool though friendly terms with the pompous uncle and the poor sickly cousin whose joint disappearance had so abruptly transformed his future; and it was his way to understate his feelings rather than to pretend more than he felt. Nevertheless, beneath his habitual bantering tone Susy discerned a change.
To take a humbler instance, I recall the words of over generous praise with which he greeted the first paper I ever sent to an editor quite as clearly as I remember the monstrous effort which had brought it into being. He was not given to overrating, but it was not in his nature to understate.
In setting forth the difficulties which have to be grappled with, I shall endeavour in all things to understate rather than overstate my case. I do this for two reasons: first, any exaggeration would create a reaction; and secondly, as my object is to demonstrate the practicability of solving the problem, I do not wish to magnify its dimensions.
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