Exaggeration Quotes

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

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

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

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.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.