Best 82 quotes in «exaggeration quotes» category

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

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 Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.

The report made them out to be monsters, although there was another untold side to the story, their side. It did not matter. Their side would probably never be told.

The size of your problem is in your mind.

The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. They were grating their teeth like tobacco worms, and appeared to be dissatisfied about something. I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors' toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair. In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they stuck. I was beginning to feel really annoyed. I got up and put my clothes on and went on deck. The above is not overdrawn; it is a truthful sketch of inter-island schooner life.

Well, that’s because they’re wrong and I’m right. No more reading for you. Let’s go get some ice cream.” “I don’t know if the kitchen has any,” Joel said. “It’s hard to get in the summers, and—” “Not from the kitchen, stupid,” Melody said, rolling her eyes. “From the parlor out on Knight Street.” “Oh. I’ve … never been there.” “What! That’s a tragedy.” “Melody, everything is a tragedy to you.” “Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters! That’s it. No more discussion. We’re going. Follow.

Well, Nero," Genghis said, "I just wanted to give you this rose-a small gift of congratulations for the wonderful concert you gave us last night!" "Oh, thank you," Nero said, taking the rose out of Genghis's hand and giving it a good smell. "I was wonderful, wasn't I?" "You were perfection!" Genghis said. "The first time you played your sonata, I was deeply moved. The second time, I had tears in my eyes. The third time, I was sobbing. The fourth time, I had an uncontrollable emotional attack. The fifth time-" The Baudelaires did not hear about the fifth time because Nero's door swung shut behind them.

Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?" With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

Unless you embellish, you can't tell the truth.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.