Superlatives Quotes - Page 3

• 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 me.

  William Faulkner

  Martini, Bigger, Feels

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• Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Running, Play, Thrill

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• The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

  Denton Cooley

  Texas, Everyday, Desire

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• To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

  Ronnie Barker

  Joy, Singing, Males

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• There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Drunk, Devil

  "Natural Law". Harvard Law Review, 1918.

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• always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

  Nancy Mitford

  Water, Black, Despair

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.13, Vintage

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• I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.

  Ian Mcewan

  Intelligent, Temptation, Shadow

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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 have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.

  William Petty

  Nature, Taken, Science

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• Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  William Safire

  Lasts, Cliche, Plague

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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