To exaggerate is to weaken.

We weaken what we exaggerate.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

“Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid…

— Baltasar Gracián

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anonymous

If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate.…

— Mark Twain

“Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum…

— Sabrina Jeffries

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

— David Leavitt

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a…

— Dr. Seuss

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

— Wayne Knight

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that…

— Victor Hugo

“If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.”

— Rodney Ulyate

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah