Top 35 Exaggeration Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Exaggeration Quotes from famous people such as Wendie Malick, George Bernard Shaw, Anne-Marie, Edward Witten, Sixto Rodriguez, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
Wendie Malick
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, God. Mate, I’ve written about 800 songs, and that’s no exaggeration!
Anne-Marie
It’s an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.
Edward Witten
I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That’s no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They’re all notable musicians, too.
Sixto Rodriguez
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
Walther Bothe
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
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey
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
I’ve always been very upfront about the way I write, and I’ve always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris
Optimism isn’t funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It’s exaggeration.
Steve Toltz
Nothing will turn you into more of a ‘Star Wars’ fan than being on a ‘Star Wars’ set. When you see how lovingly that world is rendered by the set designers, costume designers, props department, art department, they genuinely build an actual world. That is not an exaggeration. They build a world.
Riz Ahmed
No, I’m a flirtatious person; I’ll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I’m so into the music, and I’m in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That’s not an exaggeration.
Missy Elliott
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc… but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
Publication in ‘The New Yorker’ meant everything, and it’s no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Daniel Alarcon
It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.
Christian de Duve
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.
Masashi Kishimoto
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton
I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.
Amanda Lepore
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America’s foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.
Reza Aslan
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
Robert Plant
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
Robin Marantz Henig
Kurt Vonnegut and I – it’s not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him.
Robert B. Weide
Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.
Gordon Brown
I think I like the artistry of the game. I still get a lot of pleasure watching the good-quality teams play, where the movements of the players are coordinated. It’s almost ballet-like, although ‘ballet-like’ is a bit of an exaggeration.
Roy Hodgson
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
Virginia Foxx
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a ‘teetotal Christian,’ which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.
Moby
Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history

Brock Lesnar is the most unique athlete in this history of World Wrestling Entertainment, and I say that with without embellishment or exaggeration.
Paul Heyman
I don’t think it’s exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.
Wilson Cruz
Being bipolar is a huge exaggeration of your emotions. You can be pretty high and also terribly low, so I’ve been through it all.
Margaret Trudeau
Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that’s why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.
Sharon Needles