It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done'… — Paul Jewell Copy Share Image
The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said,… — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male… — Ronnie Barker Copy Share Image
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,'… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..There’s no way to tell anyone who hasn’t been through it, there’s no way to… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Hyperbolic Suggestion is—as one might infer from the term’s literal interpretation—a method of suggestion induced upon the subject (or subjects), in question,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. — Johann Gottfried Seume Copy Share Image
There is only one Messi. No matter what I say, it's too little. You have to shower him with superlatives. — Niko Kovac Copy Share Image
If you look back into the Superlatives' body of work, we've always included instrumentals. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Allen Anderson speaks from the heart about subjects he loves; this enthralls audiences everywhere. His outlook is realistic but invariably positive, encouraging… — Henry Koster Copy Share Image
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
