Quotes About Exaggeration

Eva se dejó caer en la silla. –Ahora voy a tener que darte mi pañuelo nuevo y puede que, ya de paso, necesite un sistema nervioso nuevo. No estoy hecha para tanto drama. –¿Estás de coña? –Frankie se levantó y empezó a recoger la mesa–. Tú inventaste el drama. Podrías casarte con el drama, tener hijos con él, que por cierto se llamarían Crisis y Pánico, y viviríais felices para siempre.

That's because he had such an enormous load of genitalia - you'd think that the rest of the body was nothing but a handle on that piece of equipment.

Age has a way of exagerrating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the round tend to grow rounder, and the slim tend to waste away.

But this is silly—we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six, and shoots fire upon command.

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!

Age has a way of exaggerating the physical traits of those who live to feel its strains; the

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day.

And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

Mark Twain. The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.

James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness, the report of my death was an exaggeration.

You can't put too much spin on a miracle.

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

In his continued forecasts of the potential German air strength, Churchill has often been accused of exaggeration.

Although the Government and the Air Ministry sought to weaken the impact of Churchill's warnings by accusing him of exaggeration, within four years they were forced to recognize that the true situation was as he had forecast.

My dear Watson, said he, I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.