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Exaggeration Quotes


These are some of the best 'Exaggeration' quotations and sayings.


Exaggerated language employed on trivial occasions spoils that simplicity and singleness of mind so necessary to a right judgment of ourselves and others.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. - They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. - They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate."

There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain: but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.

Those who exaggerate in their statements belittle themselves.