Quotes About Exaggeration

Nothing is too ridiculous for modern politics.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

Some folks swear, though not at all, that, using chains, he sliced his head off--derby and all--and that the head sailed like a cannon ball through the air a quarter mile, bounced another quarter mile, and still had enough steam to cripple a horse some fellow was riding into New Marsails.

Chandler's "She was blonde enough to make a bishop kick a hole through a stained-glass window

Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,Figures pedantical.

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

egocentric melodrama.

Bringing Marcus to Findlay would be like bringing a bazooka to a Tupperware party.

Legend is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and legend tells us about a million men,

Chicago delighted me," he wrote, "because it was just as chaotic as my own mind, and I found my own preposterous state of consciousness reflected and exaggerated at every turn.

Do NOT complain about the tea. We know it tastes like someone's bathwater that has been PEED in. That's because it is.

hank you, Miss Midget, I mean Midge, for that beautiful tuba playing," lied Mr Grave. It had been truly awful. Like a hippopotamus farting.

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]

Every man is blessed with his gifts from the Lord. One of mine happens to be a penis large enough that, if it had a penis of its own, my penis's penis would be larger than your penis." There was a moment of stunned silence, then I heard Jen start laughing so hard I thought she would choke. "Fuck all of you," John retorted. "You don't even exist. We're all just a figment of my cock's imagination.

I closed my eyes and let out a breath that smelled like I'd eaten an entire wet dog and washed it down with sweat wrung from a hobo's undershirt.

With a bassy thump and a smell like burnt sulfur, Shitload farted himself far into the air.

Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

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To exaggerate is to weaken.

Polaire! The agitating and agitated Polaire! The tiny slip of a woman that you know, with the waist slender to the point of pain, of screaming out loud, of breaking in two, in a spasmically tight bodice, the prettiest slimness ...