Deprecation Quote by Idries Shah

“If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.”

— Rodney Ulyate

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

— Baltasar Gracian

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

— Hosea Ballou

“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

To exaggerate is to weaken.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

— Anonymous

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of…

— Tom Robbins

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

— Anonymous

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

— Eric Hoffer

Hyperbole is a thousand times better than exaggeration.

— Steve Carell

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

— Vladimir Lenin

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

— Amy Hempel