Quotes About Exaggeration

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

Toutes les supériorités dont se targuent les Occidentaux sont purement imaginaires, à l'exception de la seule supériorité matérielle; celle-là n'est que trop réelle, personne ne la leur conteste, et, au fond, personne ne la leur envie non plus; mais le malheur est qu'ils en abusent.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

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

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

But witnesses will say a good deal to make a long story out of a short happening.

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me. Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty. -Percy

If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

Tobias was more camp than a Scout jamboree.

Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)

To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.

high heels are each big enough to bury an Egyptian in.

The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.