Exaggeration Quotes

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

Emma Donoghue

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Eric Hoffer

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

Hosea Ballou

He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.

Ivern Ball

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

We always weaken everything we exaggerate.

Fr餩ricC鳡r

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Jack Benny

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway

Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans.

Source Unknown

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Walter Bagehot

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Victor Hugo

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.

Susan Sontag