There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd,… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?" "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list… — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back.… — Alan Powell Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. — John Stott Copy Share Image
“As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
