Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of…

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and…

— Vera Nazarian

“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,…

— Rhoda Broughton

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

— Ruth Benedict

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.

— Winston Churchill

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and…

— Eliot Spitzer

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague…

— C. S. Lewis

My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what…

— Sara Gruen

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern…

— Mary McCarthy

“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too…

— Robert Grudin

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think…

— Sufjan Stevens

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters:…

— Ron Fournier

In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to…

— Francis Schaeffer