exaggeration quotes

   She was neither clear-sighted nor accurate; and in her attempts to describe morals, manners, and even facts, was unable to avoid the pitfalls of exaggeration.

- Anthony Trollope
  Of his mother, FrancesTrollope, author of The Domestic Manners of theAmericans. Autobiography, ch.2.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  In the NewYorkJournal, 2 Jun.This was the substance of Twain's cable to theAssociated Press in response to the news item that he had died.