Quotes about Exaggeration

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. In modern sculpture, picture, and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there, and at all points, adding and adding, instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.

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

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

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

While passion may induce some people to exaggerate, it may drive others to be all the more meticulous and accurate so as not to compromise the credibility of the message they wish to communicate. As you'll see, we think the authors of the Bible took this meticulous and accurate road.

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.

Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology.