Quotes on exaggeration
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Gibran, Kahlil
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
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
de Balzac, Honore
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Alger, William
There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
Billings, Josh
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
Thoreau, Henry David
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
All news is an exaggeration of life.
Schorr, Daniel