Superlative Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.
— Samuel Hynes
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those…
— Roger L'Estrange
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Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and…
— Ruth Bernhard
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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting…
— A J Liebling
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal…
— Frank Schoonmaker
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My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of…
— Ayn Rand
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Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
— Terry Teachout
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I'm greedy. I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends. Keep that superlative high just…
— Edie Sedgwick
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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 explain it to…
— Edie Sedgwick
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
— Isaac Watts
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to…
— Pablo Neruda
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A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
— Claude C. Hopkins
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"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the…
— Daniel Starch
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the…
— Daniel Starch
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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
— Dorothy Parker
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Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than…
— Simon Greenleaf
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The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I…
— William Petty
Who Wrote These Superlative Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Superlative Quotes as follows: