Hyperbole Quotes

• I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Bedtime, Sometimes

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• Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

  Bill Moyers

  Oxygen, Johnson

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• Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

  Sean Hannity

  Support, President, Propaganda

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• I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

  Ron Chernow

  Littles, Biographers, I Can

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• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  Adam Carolla

  Air, Stories, Use

  "How Dare You!": Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Mazes, Way

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• Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

  George Will

  Society, Atrophy

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• The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Thinking, Play

  "Trump: The Art of the Deal". Book by Donald Trump, November 1, 1987.

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• 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

  Thinking, President, Typical

  "Marco Rubio makes the case for Mitt Romney, steers clear of vice presidential talk". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• 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

  Negativity, Sometimes, Online

  Source: collider.com

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• Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
  Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
  Figures pedantical--these summer flies
  Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Three, Phrases

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Perpetual

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Love'

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• In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Distance, Government, Long

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• It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

  Thomas Watson

  Stars, Angel, Noble

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• I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

  Frances Mayes

  Southern, Speech, Metaphor

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• We do live in a time where there are fake web sites peddling mistruths out or sites that use hyperbole and don't put things in context. There's a range of ways that real journalism has been mashed up with things that aren't journalism... like opinion or that's sensationalistic in some ways. It is really noisy out there. You have to think of ways to cut though the noise.

  Rachel Martin

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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• I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.

  George Carlin

  Art, Home, Men

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• New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Names, Irreverence

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1976). “Kicked a building lately?”, Crown

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

  John Cleese

  Enthusiastic

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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

  Paul Vixie

  Kids, Gone, Levels

  NANOG mailing list, 2006.

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• Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

  Terry Gilliam

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• If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.

  Wendy Sherman

  Art, Believe, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Needs, Language, Economic

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• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sound, Adults, May

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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