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It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. — Walter J. Phillips

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There — Victor Hugo

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

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over. — Rodney Ulyate

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore De Balzac

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands. — Buck Rodgers

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw

Is that true?
There is truth in it.
And lies as well?
There is an untruth, and an exaggeration. — George R R Martin

A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement. — Abhijit Naskar

Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. — Oscar Wilde

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Legends exaggerate. — Toba Beta

She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice. — Ayn Rand

All news is an exaggeration of life. — Daniel Schorr

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect — Steven Pressfield

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

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease. — Ayn Rand

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. — Craig Ferguson

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost it's temper. — Kahlil Gibran

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. — Criss Jami

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. — Stephen Covey

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush

Entrepreneur starts with an exaggeration, converts to a dream and then ends it with a vision! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. — Voltaire

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth. — Pauly Shore

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth. — Marisha Pessl

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. — William R. Alger

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. — Satish Kumar

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

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

If they could, women would put make-up on the rainbow. — Ljupka Cvetanova

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

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart. — Stephenie Meyer

Exaggeration is overweight truth. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. — Oscar Wilde

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. — Moby

He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole. — Tom Angleberger

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings. — Georg Ebers

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. — John Stott

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. — Barbara Tuchman

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

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

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

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. — Samuel Johnson

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

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

[Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration. — Lawrence Martin

Fear is the exaggeration of our weaknesses against another's strength. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every woman with her own makeup! — Ljupka Cvetanova

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out. — Tim Tharp

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. — Kahlil Gibran

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast — Wendy Palmer

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. — C. G. Jung

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat]. — John F. Kerry

Exaggeration is my only reality. — Diana Vreeland

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? — John Clayton

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you. — Daniel Kahneman

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

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated. — Marty Rubin

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. — Eliza Cook

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin. — Alexei Mordashov

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings

it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first. — David S. Rose

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz

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

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

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory. — Edward Witten

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

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

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor. — Barbara Mertz

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. — Emma Donoghue

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration. — Marco Rubio

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration — Helmut Schmid

He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration. — G.K. Chesterton

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. — Henry David Thoreau

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

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings. — Don Rickles

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. — Alfred Nobel

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

Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration. — Henry David Thoreau

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

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

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

We weaken what we exaggerate. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. — Eugene Ionesco

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain

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

There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration. — John Baker