Quotes about 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.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect

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.

Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into the account.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

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

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

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

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.