"Overrating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has been committed with reference to this matter, consists not in overrating the hazard of the time, when changes so important are being accomplished, but in regarding only one of the manifestations—though that indeed is the most striking one of the many important ends which nature is then labouring to bring about. A child in perfect health ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... estimate that the Americans employ at least thirty thousand of our seamen in their service, I do not think, as my subsequent remarks will prove, that I am at all overrating the case. ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... token of humility, another must be added, from the same letter, speaking of two New Zealand friends:—'To me she has always been kindness itself, with her husband overrating me to such an amusing extent that I don't think it ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... repeated. "But, indeed, Countess, you are overrating me. I am only a journalist. I ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim |
