Exaggeration Quote by Edith Hamilton Download Open image “A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.” — Edith Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Inspirational Tendencies Traits
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“Roman authorities recommended that a very effective way to persuade and move a person or a council to adopt a particular policy is to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet” — Noel Hynd Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
“Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ” — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.” — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
