Superlative Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout
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
I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..Thereâ€™s no way to tell anyone who hasnâ€™t been through it, thereâ€™s no way to explain it to… — Edie Sedgwick
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
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
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution — Claude C. Hopkins
"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
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
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
I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella. — Dorothy Parker
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
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: