Exaggerate Quotes

131 quotes by 115 authors

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something.… — George H. W. Bush
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't exaggerate - I just remember big. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to… — Carl von Clausewitz
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.… — Dan Barker
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. — Nahum Goldmann
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate… — Radha Mitchell
Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions… — Quentin L. Cook
Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security. — Bill Delahunt
Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of… — Laurie Penny
If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I… — Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah
If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and… — Joshua Jackson
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to… — Price Pritchett
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them — George Bernard Shaw
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many… — P.J. O'Rourke

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