Exaggeration Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

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.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

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.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

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

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.