Best 82 quotes in «exaggeration quotes» category

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

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 is a branch of lying.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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.

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

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

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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

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

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.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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

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

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

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

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.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

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

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly. ~love you more than their parents. ~give you a daily bread.

Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens, Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.