Exaggeration Quotes

185 quotes by 160 authors

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise… — Joseph Conrad
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. — Gelett Burgess
Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his… — Israel Shenker
I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh.… — Dr. Seuss
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is… — Chuck Hagel
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. — William Rounseville Alger
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them… — Jose Clemente Orozco
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps… — Edwin Newman
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. — Edith Hamilton
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out… — Lawrence Block
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can… — Joan Bauer
In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and… — Tony D'Souza
How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try… — Richard Adams
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an… — Paul Strand
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. — Thomas B. Macaulay
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then… — Mark Twain
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that… — Oscar Wilde
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light… — Thomas A. Edison
Everybody exaggerates a little bit. — Bubba Watson

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