There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
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I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration.
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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.
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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.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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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.
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I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
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He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Love
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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.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Exaggeration follows desperation
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
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There is no one who does not exaggerate!
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
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The report of my death was an exaggeration.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else
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