Exaggeration Quotes

185 quotes by 160 authors

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or… — Milan Kundera
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a… — Willa Cather
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related… — Swami Vivekananda
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the… — Walther Bothe
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of… — Richard Lindzen
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment… — Marilyn Waring
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,… — Stephen Leacock
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the… — Leon Trotsky
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. — Drew Carey
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor… — Wendie Malick
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. — Arianna Huffington

Who Wrote These Exaggeration Quotes

160 authors contributed a total of 185 Exaggeration Quotes, led by these top contributors: