Robert Frost Quotes

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Never a man to understate matters

It's true, I did write - but it's probably not as dramatic as it sounds.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Hyperbole engaged in consciously to achieve a desired effect can be, as we have noted, a useful rhetorical tool. Indeed, its use in this manner is sometimes called "exaggeration in the service of truth." However, there's much to be said for restraint of tongue and pen, and restraint refers not only to what we say but also to how we say it. It is possible, believe it or not, to be emphatic without indulging in overstatement; it is possible to be forceful without exaggerating.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.