Exaggeration Quote by Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

— Hosea Ballou

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

— Rodney Ulyate

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

— Anonymous

“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

Hyperbole is a thousand times better than exaggeration.

— Steve Carell

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

— Anonymous

To exaggerate is to weaken.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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

— Nick Boles

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements…

— Tryon Edwards

“Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to…

— Idries Shah

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

— Amy Hempel

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin