Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

— Sade Adu

Good things come to those who hustle

— Chuck Noll

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and…

— Issa Rae

“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they…

— Robert Fanney

“NormnAl, "Like, Share, Follow and subscribe" - The typical cliche drill.”

— Deyth Banger

To move past fear is a cliche.

— Tony Abbott

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A…

— Miles Millar

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…

— Jacob Bronowski

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are…

— Josephine de La Baume

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

— William Safire

“The more you know, the less you understand. That's so cliche'. Wanna know the scary version? The more you know, the more fuckups you…

— Toba Beta

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that…

— Markus Wolf

“Sometimes people overlooked how useful a cliché was. It got everyone thinking about things in the same sort of way, and that could be…

— Michael Leese

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

— Kenny Smith