quotes about Exaggeration
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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
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There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
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no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”
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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 -
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
-- Clara Hughes -
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
-- Daniel AlarconSource : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
-- David Leavitt -
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
-- Edith Hamilton -
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
-- Ivy Compton-BurnettSource : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.28, A&C Black
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Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
-- Jane Siberry -
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
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It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.
-- John Hart -
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 LindhSource : Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.
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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 -
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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 -
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
-- Mark Twain -
The body learns through exaggeration and contrast
-- Wendy Palmer -
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
-- Helmut Schmid -
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
-- Phil HeathSource : Source: monstersupplements.com
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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
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