Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other."

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

To exaggerate invariably weakens the point of what we have to say.