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Exaggeration Quotes

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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel

Authors on Exaggeration Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson Jean-Francois de La Harpe Andre Gide Mark Twain Gilbert K. Chesterton Beryl Bainbridge Marco Pierre White David Leavitt Stan Laurel Barbara Tuchman Henry David Thoreau Bubba Watson Lawrence Block Demetri Martin Steven Wright Edith Hamilton John Hart Friedrich Nietzsche Ivy Compton-Burnett Diana Vreeland Rush Limbaugh Daniel Alarcon John Walker Lindh Arthur Conan Doyle Nicolas Chamfort Christian de Duve J. Michael Straczynski Daniel Schorr Kofi Annan Jane Siberry Helmut Schmid Clara Hughes Zhuangzi
2.
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
Phil Heath

3.
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Diana Vreeland

4.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort

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A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide

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I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
John Walker Lindh

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.
To exaggerate is to weaken.
Jean-Francois de La Harpe

9.
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.
Christian de Duve

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All news is an exaggeration of life.
Daniel Schorr

13.
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
David Leavitt

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It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.
John Hart

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The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain

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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Edith Hamilton

17.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno

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A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.
Marco Pierre White

19.
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.
Kofi Annan

20.
There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.
Benjamin Disraeli

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche

22.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Barbara Tuchman

23.
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
Zhuangzi

24.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
Lawrence Block

25.
no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
Beryl Bainbridge

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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide

27.
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

28.
The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.
Rush Limbaugh

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
Mark Twain

30.
Everybody exaggerates a little bit.
Bubba Watson

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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
J. Michael Straczynski

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You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.
Demetri Martin

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The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
Helmut Schmid

34.
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Daniel Alarcon

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Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
Jane Siberry

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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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

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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
Henry David Thoreau

40.
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes

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My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
Steven Wright

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We weaken what we exaggerate.
Jean-Francois de La Harpe