Exaggeration Quotes
+3Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
- Voltaire
+1To exaggerate is to weaken.
- Jean François
+1Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
- Alexander Pope
+1All news is an exaggeration of life.
- Daniel Schorr
+1I never exaggerate. I just remember big.
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
+1We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
- La Harpe
+1Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
- Proverb
+1If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
- The Talmud
+1To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
- Mark Twain
+1Some folks never exaggerate they just remember big.
- Audrey Snead
+1False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
- William Alger
+1Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
- Eliza Cook
+1Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
- Bob Edwards
+1Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
- Jonathan Swift
+1Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
- Hosea Ballou
+1We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination… down our earth to rake.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
- Nicolas Chamfort
+1There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can’t tell the truth without lying.
- Josh Billings
+1Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side.
- George Eliot
+1We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
- Drew Carey
+1We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Honore De Balzac
+1All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
- Walt Disney
+1What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
- French Proverb
+1Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
- Ernest Hemingway
+1There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1It is not an exaggeration to say that play is as basic to your child’s total development as good food, cleanliness, and rest.
- Joanne E. Oppenheim
+1Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
- Eric Hoffer
+1Some 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.
- Tryon Edwards
