Quotes About Exaggeration

Bisognava ridurre alle loro giuste proporzioni i discorsi esagerati che nascondono affetti mediocri. Come se la piena del cuore traboccasse talvolta nelle metafore più vacue. Giacché nessuno ha mai l'esatta misura dei propri bisogni, delle proprie idee, dei propri dolori, giacché la parola umana è come una caldaia incrinata sulla quale battiamo per cavare, alla fine, una musica capace di far ballare gli orsi: e dire che, invece, vorremmo intenerire le stelle!

las palabras exageradas que ocultaban medianas afecciones

But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie imagined in despair of all desire. She now knew the pettiness of the passions which art exaggerated.

All that people have found fault with as exaggerated in fiction you have made me feel.

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.

Sabías que las indicaciones del tiempo de espera en la cola de las atracciones de Disneylandia están exageradas? Así, cuando llegas al principio de la cola en menos tiempo del anunciado, eres un visitante feliz.

Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim __ there he is again!

You look like several large orangutans made you their love slave." Ah

That was melodramatic, of course. Pure hyperbole. But if hyperbole couldn't feel free to roam in his head, where could it roam? The

What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

In their endeavor to score as much sex as possible, they'll tell women the opposite. Men know women feel pressure to be perfect so they 'throw them off the scent' with colorful stories to keep her focussed on pleasing him (short term). Like the one about how all his ex-girlfriends are supermodels. Or the one about his ex having sex with him ten times a day. (Clearly, a figment of his imagination.)

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Doesn't the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not the yard now?

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.