Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.

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.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

It is futile to ask a person who is narrow minded or close minded, to give his judgment for he is not willing to accommodate suggestions and opinions from others and hence, his wisdom remains restricted and is not allowed to evolve, and so he is not able to use his wisdom efficiently.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Never a man to understate matters

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

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.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

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.