Quotes About Overstatement

Hyperbolic rodomantade of the most puerile type.

Priscilla related that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and forcefully made love to" her, declaring, "This is how a real man makes love to his woman". She later stated in an interview that she regretted her choice of words in describing the incident, and said it had been an overstatement.

Social media can blow anything out of proportion.

Further experiments showed that people were driven to overstate the accuracy not only of their original predictions but also of those made by others.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.

There is a place for hyperbole and I believe it's the back jacket of books

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

HYPERBOLE IS THE BEST THING EVER!

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

We once more find here an illustration of the truth that every exaggeration contains the seed of its own undoing.

Orice idee e exagerare. A gândi înseamn? a exagera.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

You make mountains out of molehills.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.