Cliche Quotes

Is ired old cliche one?

— Rod Schmidt

I hate cliche.

— Robert Plant

I'm a cliche.

— Ira Glass

I feel like a cliche.

— Jonathan Carroll

“What's a cliché”

— Anonymous

“All plots are cliche.”

— Jincy Willett

“This is what happened.”

— Douglas Fairbairn

“Cliché’s contain all truth,”

— Laird Barron

“There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

— Ernie Pyle

All things come to those who wait,

— Violet Fane

I like a cliche if it's sort of turned on its head.

— Jason Isbell

It's a cliche, but my comedy is all about life.

— John Pinette

A fool and his money are soon married.

— Carolyn Wells

A Schiaparelli woman is not about cliche.

— Marco Zanini

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

Never too cliche. You don't have to be a rule breaker to be distinctively different.

— Anonymous

I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.

— Jay DeMarcus

I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy."

— Jack Handey

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

— Chuck Klosterman

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

— Eugene Ionesco

I always just wanted to write a love song to my wife that wasn't cliche.

— Walker Hayes

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

— Saul Niguez

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they…

— Mary Kay Andrews

The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and…

— Hugh Grant

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

— Adrian Lyne

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go…

— Nathan Lane

“rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés”

— Thomas Mann

“The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy.”

— Mo Yan

“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is…

— Leslie Jamison

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and…

— Ann Shulgin

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep…

— Roger Ebert

I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to…

— Harlan Coben

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time…

— Summer Sanders

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them…

— Remy de Gourmont

There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day…

— Peter James

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

— Herman Kahn