{"quotes":[{"text":"Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’.","author":"Tony Schwartz","tags":["alternative-facts","compulsive-liar","contradiction","contradictory","deceit","donald-trump","donald-trump","grandiosity","hyperbole","liar","lies","lying","lying-to-others","pathological-liar","self-aggrandizing","self-deception","truthful-hyperbole"],"id":34486,"author_id":"Tony+Schwartz"},{"text":"I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.","author":"Gail Carriger","tags":["damn-fine-writing","hyperbole","satire"],"id":76882,"author_id":"Gail+Carriger"},{"text":"Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special 'godslayer' term life policies. Charlatan's with 'godproof' armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods...","author":"Kevin Hearne","tags":["fantasy","good-humor","hyperbole"],"id":145545,"author_id":"Kevin+Hearne"},{"text":"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["hyperbole","poetry"],"id":151041,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["hyperbole","imagination"],"id":160341,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.","author":"Gail Carriger","tags":["articulate","fashion","fun","hyperbole","vocabulary"],"id":218877,"author_id":"Gail+Carriger"},{"text":"I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, sitting was one of the things you could do in a room this size; but you could also stage operas, hold cycling races, and have an absolutely cracking game of frisbee, all at the same time, without having to move any of the furniture.It could rain in a room this big.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["description","enormous","funny","hyperbole","rooms"],"id":255527,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.","author":"Marshall McLuhan","tags":["hyperbole","satire"],"id":261158,"author_id":"Marshall+McLuhan"},{"text":"France, stop throwing awards at me! I have so many already, give them to people who need them.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["art","artists","artists-life","assertiveness","award-artist","award-show","awards","france","funny","funny","humility","hyperbole","self-importance"],"id":419526,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"Going to marry her? Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself. It would be a case, not of bigamy but trigamy; there is enough of her to furnish wives for the whole parish. One man marry her! - it is monstrous! You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting places, and you were in rude health. I once was rash enough to try walking round her before breakfast, but only got half way and gave it up exhausted. Or you might read the Riot Act and disperse her; in short, you might do anything but marry her!","author":"Sydney Smith","tags":["humor","hyperbole","wit"],"id":438472,"author_id":"Sydney+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}