Exaggeration Quotes

Most popular exaggeration quotes

Exaggeration is a branch of lying. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

lying

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. - Jean-François de La Harpe quote.
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

lies

Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth. - Joseph Conard quote.
Nothing lays itself open to the charge of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

truth

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. - Francis Bacon quote.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

speech

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable. - Hosea Ballou quote.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable.
There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. - Josh Billings quote.
There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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The temptation to vivify they tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. - Nicolas Chamfort quote.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

passion

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. - Tyron Edwards quote.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. - Steven Covey quote.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Exaggeration is a species of lying. - Baltasar Gracian quote.
Exaggeration is a species of lying.
To exaggerate is to weaken. - Jean-François de La Harpe quote.
To exaggerate is to weaken.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.  Why should it exaggerate? - Victor Hugo quote.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.  Why should it exaggerate?

truth

He desired to exaggerate.  And here we have what may be called a primary human need, which should be placed by psychologists with the desire for nourishment, for safety, for self-gratifications, and for appreciation, as one of the elemental lusts of man. - Rose Macaulay quote.
He desired to exaggerate.  And here we have what may be called a primary human need, which should be placed by psychologists with the desire for nourishment, for safety, for self-gratifications, and for appreciation, as one of the elemental lusts of man.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.