Exaggeration Quotes

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

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

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.