Quotes about Exaggeration

Too many marketers spend most of their time running a hype show, trying to get just a little bigger.

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.

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.

From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into her self-renunciation; her own life was still a drama for her, in which she demanded of herself that her part should be played with intensity.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

They'd been attacked by lions, stampeded by elephants, flooded out by rains, made war on by "natives." The tales they told were simply incredible. There they sat on a heavily antimacassared horsehair sofa, two prim and proper ladies in ruffles and lace, telling these stupendous stories over tea.