Best 82 quotes in «exaggeration quotes» category

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate.

Our nearness to our problems makes them seem way bigger than they are, while our farness from other people’s problems makes them seem way smaller than they are.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

Please don't be too prejudiced against the poor thing because she's a liar. I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies. I mean that though, to take an instance, her atrocity stories have grown and grown until every kind of unpleasant story that has ever appeared in print has happened to her or her relations personally, she did have a bad shock initially and did see one, at least, of her relations killed. I think a lot of these displaced persons feel, perhaps justly, that their claim to our notice and sympathy lies in their atrocity value and so they exaggerate and invent.

May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

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.

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 size of your problem is in your mind.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

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

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

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

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

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.

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 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.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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

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

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

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

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.

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

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.

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

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

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

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

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

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

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