It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to…

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

— Portia de Rossi

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

— Rebecca Hall

The beauty of home education is that it gives a family more time together-time to solidify relationships, to communicate values, and to focus on…

— Kimberly Hahn

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

— Kate Bush

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

— John Singleton

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

— Anonymous

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull…

— Anais Nin

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

— Ivan Turgenev

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

— Lord Chesterfield

And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from…

— Alexander Smith

“He was trying to do contrite, which is a combination of con and trite .”

— Andy Hamilton

“When I thought of how I’d been living, how I’d been approaching life, it was all so trite, so miserably pointless. Unimaginative middle-class rubbish,…

— Haruki Murakami