Exaggeration quotes

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

#Underestimate #Exaggeration #Oneself

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Reality #Satire #Exaggeration

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Sin #Exaggeration

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Trauma #Exaggeration

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.
-- Bubba Watson

#Littles #Exaggeration

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.
-- Christian de Duve

#Would Be #Not Afraid #Exaggeration

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
-- Clara Hughes

#Teenager #Exaggeration

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

#Changed #Exaggeration #Changed My Life

All news is an exaggeration of life.
-- Daniel Schorr

#News #Exaggeration

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

#Thinking #Looks #Exaggeration

Exaggeration is my only reality.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Reality #Exaggeration

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
-- Edith Hamilton

#Tendencies #Exaggeration #Traits

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

#Blood #Relation #Exaggeration

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Matter #Way #Exaggeration

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
-- Jane Siberry

#Harmony #Exaggeration

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#Color #True Colors #Exaggeration

To exaggerate is to weaken.
-- Jean-Francois de La Harpe

#Exaggeration

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

#Meltdowns #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.
-- John Walker Lindh

#Single Life #Honest #Exaggeration

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.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Thinking #Force #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.
-- Lawrence Block

#Way #Exaggeration #My Way

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
-- Mark Twain

#Death #Exaggeration

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
-- Mark Twain

#Merit #Exaggeration #Humans

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast
-- Wendy Palmer

#Body #Exaggeration #Contrast

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
-- William Rounseville Alger

#Emphasis #Exaggeration #Eloquence

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
-- Helmut Schmid

#Extravagance #Latter #Exaggeration

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
-- Phil Heath

#Arrogance #Exaggeration

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
-- Stan Laurel

#Wit #Exaggeration

We weaken what we exaggerate.
-- Jean-Francois de La Harpe

#Exaggeration