Quotes about Exaggeration

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.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.