Quotes About Exaggeration

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.

It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.

... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

May be it is good that we can't quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

I am accused of being the enemy of America, and subject to the influence of a foreign country . . . and every act of my administration is tortured, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.

Despite the worldwide opinion that women are loquacious and indiscreet, my own experience has led me to believe that women on the whole make better conspiratorial workers than men…. They are quicker to perceive danger … superior at being inconspicuous and generally display much caution, discretion and common sense…. Men are often prone to exaggeration and bluff and … subconsciously inclined to surround themselves with an air of mystery that sooner or later proves fatal.

She's got a squirrel in her drawers, you idiot. She's not on fire!

Now she sorta resembled the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man dressed in Pepto-Bismol.

I stared at her in dismay. "You expect me to shop, too? Good God. Is the apocalypse happening and I missed the Rider of Death?

But my daddy always said that story was a fish tale. That was his way of describing a trumped-up story, like a whopper

Me hacía gracia Pérez Nuix, con sus ideas exageradas y peregrinas, con su apasionamiento y su rotundidad, en el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes. La templanza y la moderación no prenden, o les cuesta un mundo, años en lugar de días.

In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations.

His penis swelled in his pants to the extent that it felt like a hamster that had died and entered rigor mortis.

The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.

In Hom. 3, p. 30, he exaggerates the grievousness of sin in a priest, and has these remarkable words, "I do not believe that many priests are saved; but that far the greater number are lost: for this dignity requires a great soul and much courage.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

overestimating!!

They were among the leaders of what I had begun to think of as "Team Apocalypse," the media outlets that – for reasons I could not fully understand – seemed committed to painting as bleak a picture of the coronavirus as possible.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives