Exaggeration Is Quotes

• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

  Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

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

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Cartoon

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vices, Function, Virtuous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The report of my death was an exaggeration.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Death, Obituary

  Quoted in N.Y. Journal, 2 June 1897. These words were preceded by "James Ross Clemens, of St. Louis, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness." The quotation is usually reported as "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Much earlier (5 July 1863), the following appeared in a letter by Twain to the Territorial Enterprise: "There was a report about town, last night, that Charles Strong, Esq

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Flames, Essence

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• Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

  Hosea Ballou

  Blood, Relation, Exaggerated

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• All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Exaggeration

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• It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

  Arianna Huffington

  Class, Middle, Endangered Species

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  Drew Carey

  Comedy, Bigs, Said

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, November, 1997.

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Personality, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Foolish Man, Drunk

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Together, Delight

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wall, Book, Space

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• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Expression, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Islamic, People

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• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Literature, Praise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  William Rounseville Alger

  White Collar, Emphasis, Eloquent

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Exaggeration, Exaggerating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Flames, Essence

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• It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Merit, Humans, Exaggerating

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Not Good Enough

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Sides

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  World, Steps, Remakes

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Small Man, Greater

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Greatness, Imagination, World

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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