Exaggeration Quotes

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

— Beryl Bainbridge

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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— Anonymous

To exaggerate is to weaken.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

— Barbara Mertz

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

— Henry David Thoreau

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

— Mark Twain

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

— Gelett Burgess

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

— Craig Ferguson

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

— Edward Witten

“Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.”

— Eliza Cook

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

— Drew Carey

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

— Josh Billings

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

— John Flanagan

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ~ Josh Billings”

— Mara Jacobs

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the…

— Rachel Cusk

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

— Annalee Newitz

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

— Isabella Bird

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

— Walter J. Phillips

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia…

— Vladimir Putin

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

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it…

— Sri Aurobindo

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a…

— Albert Schweitzer

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with…

— Thomas A. Edison

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive…

— Stephen Leacock

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

If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we…

— Shel Silverstein

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

— Baltasar Gracián

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the…

— Eugene Delacroix

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…

— Peter Straub

If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of…

— Marilyn Waring

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…

— Eric Temple Bell

Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people…

— Hyon Gyon

“Well, Nero," Genghis said, "I just wanted to give you this rose-a small gift of congratulations for the wonderful concert you gave…

— Lemony Snicket