Books Quote by Anonymous

“The understatement rule means that a debilitating and painful chronic illness must be described as ‘a bit of a nuisance’; a truly horrific experience…

— Kate Fox

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly,…

— Ada Lovelace

“Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid…

— Baltasar Gracián

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their…

— Tryon Edwards

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging.…

— Claude C. Hopkins

“All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.”

— Jay Parini

“The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.”

— Boris Pasternak

“The reasons for our prolific understating are not hard to discover: our strict prohibitions on earnestness, gushing, emoting and boasting require almost constant use…

— Kate Fox

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down…

— Samuel Johnson