Superlative Quotes
29 quotes by 23 authors
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The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an…
— Stewart Udall
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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not…
— Ansel Adams
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When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding…
— William Faulkner
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
— Dorothy Parker
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A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Being high is one of the most pleasant sensations available to mankind. Every day is Saturday. It is to be like a child; to perceive…
— Unknown Author
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Unprincipled success is superlative failure.
— JCHenry
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The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion. The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882)
Who Wrote These Superlative Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 29 Superlative Quotes as follows: