Top Exaggeration Quotes

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.

Exaggeration Definition

(n.) The act of heaping or piling up.

(n.) The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

(n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all other...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. It's all right, he said. But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I...

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays sh...

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the s...