Quotes about Exaggeration
There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.
— Stephen Colbert
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
— Stephen Covey
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
— KP Yohannan
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
— Henry David Thoreau
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
— Henry David Thoreau
And this is true; this is how they do it. They take one little word out of what you say, ignore all the rest, and then begin to magnify it all over the world to make you look like what you actually aren't. And I'm very used to that
— Malcolm X
He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.
— Anne Lamott
Too many marketers spend most of their time running a hype show, trying to get just a little bigger.
— Seth Godin
Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into the account.
— Gary Habermas
I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.
— George Eliot