A work of art is an exaggeration.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
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.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
Exaggeration is my only reality.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Everybody exaggerates a little bit.
A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life. " I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be. . . all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.