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Exaggeration Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
- Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
- Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
More Exaggeration Quotes
- 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… — Milan Kundera
- Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Walther Bothe
- It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must… — Joseph Murray