Quotes About Overstatement

CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

I knew I was given to dramatic overstatement, or was known to waffle about repetitiously. To further complicate matters, I was sincere. Sincerity badly stated elicits mistrust.

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

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.

the benefits promised in the book seem grossly overstated.

The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.

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.

Like the boy who cried wolf, or the football coach whose pep talks wear thin, the pope or president who turns every cause into a holy one, every enemy into a Hitler, every conflict into a genocide, may soon find his audience rolling its eyes and sinking into the very cynicism he hopes to surmount.

I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction." In

The news of my death is greatly exaggerated.

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.

The media exaggerate little things.

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

I loaded on enough sarcasm to clog up a black hole.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.