The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“When you’re faced with tragedy,18 you usually find that you’re no longer surrounded by people—you’re surrounded by platitudes.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
“Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to… — Richmond Akhigbe Copy Share Image
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
![“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid, trite commonplaces which enrol themselves under the head of moral maxims. Of course it is true—tiresomely, provokingly, heart-breakingly…” quote by Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/16a/rhoda-broughton-25508_beauty_beauty-is-a-fading-flower-3-and-applied_371805.jpg)
