#exaggeration

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conflation #editing #exaggeration #francis-bacon #shakespeare

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

— Hosea Ballou

#exaggeration #falsehood #nearly #relation

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#any #arrive #beyond #boston #conceive

He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#funny #funny

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ↗

— William R. Alger

#emphasis #exaggeration #false #true

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ↗

— Josh Billings

#exaggeration #lying #people #some #some people

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#exaggeration #gain #governments #history #i

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. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#greater #happy #harmony #parts #sum