We always weaken everything we exaggerate.

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.