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Quotes about exaggeration
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. (Bagehot Walter)
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. (Bagehot Walter)
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. (Bagehot Walter)
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world. (Bagehot Walter)
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. (Bagehot Walter)
There is no one who does not exaggerate! (Bagehot Walter)
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. (Bagehot Walter)
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. (Bagehot Walter)
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. (Bagehot Walter)
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. (Bagehot Walter)
We always weaken everything we exaggerate. (Bagehot Walter)
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? (Bagehot Walter)
I never exaggerate. I just remember big. (Bagehot Walter)
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. (Bagehot Walter)
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. (Bagehot Walter)
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. (Bagehot Walter)
Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. (Bagehot Walter)
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