Quotes About Exaggeration

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called The Venice of America by people who clearly have never been to Venice.

Horkman made a sound like a bullfrog trying to give a blow job to a buffalo.

All of the passengers knew the man with the yellow feather to be clownish and not the least bit qualified. He was also known to all as someone who lied so often it was considered involuntary and incurable. When he had $43 in his pocket he said head $76. When he lost at cards or golf, he walked away, then told the first person he encountered that he'd won. When there was no reason to lie, he lied. He lied about the time of day while standing under a clock.

Magnification and Minimization. You exaggerate the negativity in a situation and minimize the positives. I call this the "binocular trick" since magnifying is like looking through a pair of binoculars (which makes everything much bigger), and minimizing is like looking through the opposite end (which makes everything much smaller).

The excessively but not necessarily lycanthropically hirsute

Word inflation . . . Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.

They're going to drown me in milk--what a waste of good baby-food!

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!

Much ado about nothing.

It appears that the German losses in some of the principal combats were a good deal less than we thought at the time, and that reports on both sides were materially exaggerated.

I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

even today, when I have a cold, it is the worst cold in the history of the house.

Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.

Some people, under certain circumstances, hide their true emotions under exaggeration and hyperbole, not realizing their amplified caricature reveals the exact measure of the feelings it was meant to conceal.

This is epic, epic bullshit.