hyperbole quotes

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.10,'Of Love'.

It is scarcely hyperbole to say that tomorrow the whole Moghul Empire is in our power.

- Robert, 1st Baron of Plassey Clive
  Letter, 24  Jun, following victory at Plassey the previous day.

Nationalism, and its chum, patriotism, encourage unedifying hyperbole.

- Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
  'Language and Liberty', introduction to the Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry.