No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates…

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

— John Smith

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

— David Sedaris

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.

— Bubba Watson

“The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.”

— Charles Bukowski

“When I say she exaggerates I don’t mean it in the vulgar sense—that she boasts, overstates, gives too fine an account of herself. I…

— Henry James

“But the misogynist can get very mad over virtually nothing. He explodes over the most insignificant events. He exaggerates, he maximizes—he makes mountains out…

— Susan Forward

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his effect on…

— Albert Camus

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

— Michel Houellebecq

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

“However...who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?”

— Barnes Flaubert

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

— Anonymous

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

— Andrew Mason

Accept your mistakes before someone exaggerates the story.

— Anonymous

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

— Ambrose Bierce