Grace Darling Quotes

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

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.

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, the inseparable companion of greatness.

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

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Never a man to understate matters

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

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

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

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

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

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.

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 is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.