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Exaggeration
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“Ah seen a man so ugly till they spread a sheet over his head at night so sleep could slip up on him.”
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“It's not the end of the world.”
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“Huldy was one o' them that has the gift, so that ef you jist give 'em the leastest sprig of anything they make a great bush out of it right away ...”
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“Valentine's tiresome sister has lost her job. And created over this as if she had lost her hair, her teeth, her legs, her good name, and her latchkey.”
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“Everything is 'colossalized' — events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions — everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”
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“Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.”
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“Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.”
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“... I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.”
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“Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?”
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“When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.”
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“Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.”
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“... no one had experiences any more, only traumas.”
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“[On Alice Keppel:] To hear Alice talk about her escape from France, one would have thought that she had swum the Channel with her maid between her teeth.”
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“I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!'”
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“... the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.”
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“[When asked why she never insured her valuable left arm with Lloyds of London:] The answer is simple. They wanted an arm and a leg.”
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“... her own excited feelings had magnified it in length, and breadth, and height — had made a molehill into a mountain ...”
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“Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.”
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“Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big.”