exaggeration quotes

13 quotes

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Dolly Parton

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Joe Biden

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Pope Francis

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Khalil Gibran

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

Steven Wright

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Charles Bukowski

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

Alexander Pope

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

George H. W. Bush

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Richard Branson

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

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.

Kobe Bryant