Exaggeration Quotes

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

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• Exaggeration is my only reality.

  Diana Vreeland

  Reality, Exaggeration Is

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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, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

  Josh Billings

  Lying, Exaggeration Is, People

  "Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised".

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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, Exaggeration Is, Imagination

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

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Exaggeration Is

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• Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Events, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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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, Exaggeration Is

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Personality

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

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• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Race, Literature, Next

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is

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

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• Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Manners, Exaggerating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exaggeration Is, Doe, Exaggerating

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

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

  Mark Twain

  Exaggeration Is, Merit, Humans

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

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• Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

  Tryon Edwards

  Real, Needs, Speak

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356

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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, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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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, Exaggeration Is, Literature

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

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• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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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, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Patriotic

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• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

  Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

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• By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Force

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• To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

  John Irving

  Family, Nice, Food

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Adventure, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.23

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• In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

  Theodor Adorno

  Analysis, Psycho

  1966 Negative Dialectics.

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