The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the…

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

— Roger L'Estrange

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories,…

— Tim O'Brien

From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out…

— Pablo Neruda

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

— Terry Teachout

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is…

— Ronnie Barker

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means…

— Ayn Rand

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start…

— Alan Arkin

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and…

— Thomas Jefferson

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other…

— John Gunther

I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

— Dorothy Parker

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

— Elias Canetti

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to…

— Leslie Jamison

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless…

— Anonymous

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is…

— Ansel Adams