"Hyperbole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I have dealt in hyperbole, or hand-illumined the facts: I have merely stated some simple truths about the ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard
... carry your brains next to the ground in your heels."[1] Hence it is necessary to know where to draw the line; for if ever it is overstepped the effect of the hyperbole is spoilt, being in such cases relaxed by overstraining, and producing the very opposite to ...
— On the Sublime • Longinus
... Deeming miracles impossible, he did not regard them as fraud, but admitted on the contrary that the agents or narrators honestly believed them. The supernatural was not imparted to deceive, but was the result of oriental modes of speech, such as hyperbole, parable, or ellipsis, in which the steps by which the process was performed were omitted. The smoke of Sinai was considered a thunderstorm; the shining of Moses's face ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
... humour and anecdote. The talk bending in the direction of adventure, Kildare, who had been lately in South Africa with his regiment, told some tales of Zulus and assegais and Boers in the Hibernian style of hyperbole. The Irish blood never comes out so strongly as when a story is to be told, and no amount of English education and Oxford accent will suppress the tendency. The brogue is gone, but the love of the marvellous is there still. ...
— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford
... not use hyperbole any more than metaphors. Both are unsolid food. When you decide not to love, you ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez
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