Quotes on exaggeration

wooden pedestal

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Gibran, Kahlil

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Gasset, José Ortega

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Edwards, Tryon

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
de Balzac, Honore

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Alger, William

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
Billings, Josh

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
Thoreau, Henry David

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?
Johnson, Samuel

section label

 exaggeration  

Add your own tags  

All news is an exaggeration of life.
Schorr, Daniel

section label

 exaggeration  news  

Add your own tags