Top 63 Quotes About Hyperbole
#1. There's nothing worse than a smartass who pretends not to understand hyperbole.
Steven Brust
#2. Actually, no," Shallan said. "I'm just fond of hyperbole."
"I'm not," he said. "It's a real bastard to spell"
"Kabsal!
Brandon Sanderson
#3. The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
John Cleese
#4. Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know.
Stephen Pagliuca
#5. When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
Blake Crouch
#6. There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.
Porochista Khakpour
#7. In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
Anita Loos
#8. Hyperbole is an excellent red flag on the route to real wisdom.
Caroline Webb
#9. I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
Ron Chernow
#10. Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.
Gregg Easterbrook
#11. Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
Bill Moyers
#12. We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe
perhaps correctly
that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.
Frank Luntz
#13. The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
Marco Rubio
#14. Oh, sorry. My excitement must be clouding my ability to judge comedic hyperbole.
Daniel Palladino
#15. She knew she oughtn't to scold but she couldn't bear such a hyperbole. People couldn't live without food and air or shelter and money. Romantic love was an extra, nice if it came along, but definitely superfluous to the main requirements of existence.
Margot Livesey
#16. Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.
Martin Jacques
#17. (She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)
Ann Lauterbach
#18. Love's language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
It's easy to imagine you've misheard,
Richard Hoffman
#19. The thing that shocks people ... is that I mean what I say. I don't use hyperbole.
Newt Gingrich
#21. For she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.
Vladimir Nabokov
#22. The risk is, as ever, that the hyperbole of IPL will simply smother the cricket; perhaps the members of the IPL's cheer squad should stop listening to each other and start listening to themselves.
Gideon Haigh
#23. Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.
Jane Leavy
#24. We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
Mike Quigley
#25. He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole.
Tom Angleberger
#26. I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
John Legend
#27. Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.
Maithili Rao
#28. Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.
Anthony Bourdain
#29. Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
Sean Hannity
#30. Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
Adam Carolla
#31. I have much power. In the days to come I will grow stronger, and I would hate for you to find yourself on the wrong side of that which cannot be avoided." "Hyperbole and mystic aggrandizement, you mean?
Katie MacAlister
#32. Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)
Kate DiCamillo
#33. This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.
Maryrose Wood
#35. I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
Frances Mayes
#36. There is no need for hyperbole. I did NOT dump you. I peeled your mask off like a banana peel, did not like what was inside, and tossed it in the trash.
Donna Lynn Hope
#38. When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.
Anna Quindlen
#39. There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.
Martin Jacques
#40. Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.
George Will
#41. Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"
"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are talking about me."
Ellie's face slid into a smirk. "Oh, Charles," she exclaimed, "I feel as if we have known each other for a million years." Her tone grew more ironic. "I am that weary of your company.
Julia Quinn
#42. Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology.
Armin Navabi
#43. I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
Eden Sher
#44. With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
Paul Vixie
#45. The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.
Donald Trump
#46. Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
Trevor Nunn
#47. I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.
Adrian Pasdar
#49. Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication by all people around the globe.
Glenn Greenwald
#50. There is a place for hyperbole and I believe it's the back jacket of books
Malcolm Gladwell
#51. My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant.
Nick Flynn
#52. The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
Francis Bacon
#55. Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.
Paul Beatty
#56. Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods ...
Kevin Hearne
#57. She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.
Gail Carriger
#58. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
Raymond Chandler
#59. My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!
Gail Carriger
#60. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock
#61. I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.
Marshall McLuhan
#62. I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.
Gail Carriger
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