Exaggeration Quotes
- There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. — Jane Siberry
- Exaggeration is a branch of lying. — Baltasar Gracian
- Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian
- There is no one who does not exaggerate! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
- To exaggerate is to weaken. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe
- It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. — Mark Twain
- We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
- Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real… — Tryon Edwards
- Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer
- It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault
- There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. — George Eliot
- All news is an exaggeration of life. — Daniel Schorr
- The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea. — Andre Gide