Exaggerated Language Quotes

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Exaggeration is my only reality.