Boast Quote by Tryon Edwards

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

— Anonymous

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

— Baltasar Gracian

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

— Anonymous

“Like toddlers and tyrants, we are quick to take our own stories for the infallible truth, and to dismiss as wrongheaded or wicked anyone…

— Kathryn Schulz

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

“Extraverted thinkers tend to exaggerate for the sake of emphasis, and the victim will be too outraged by the unfair overstatement to pay attention…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

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

— Rodney Ulyate

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

— Cary Cooper

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

— Jane Austen

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Phil Heath