Superlatives – Quotes

Women speak in the

Women speak in the superlative. Emile Souvestre

There emanates from superlatives

There emanates from superlatives a destructive force. Elias Canetti

I’m greedy; I’d like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I’d radiate sunshine. Edie Sedgwick

I think drugs are

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 anyone who hasn’t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine Edie Sedgwick

Poets and writers who

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

Frank Sinatra was very

Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left – there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He’s done movies, TV, done this, done that – what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him … Read more

Taste and smell are

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses – they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting. … Read more

When the first-rate author

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. F. Scott Fitzgerald

A single overstatement, wherever

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 of the writer’s enthusiasm. E. B. White

I wouldn’t touch a

I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella. Dorothy Parker