Quotes About Exaggeration

I had so much lip gloss on you might have slid off and broken your own lips if you tried to kiss me.

It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!

Overstatement, too, plays a considerable part in English social life. This takes mostly the form of someone remarking: 'I say…' and then keeping silent for three days on end.

his snores sounded like ducks mating.

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

Typical of the medical profession,' said Larry bitterly. 'They can't even spot a disease until the patient is twice life size.

They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.

To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

A tale never loses in the telling.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."