Cliches Quotes

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

— Alan Perlis

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

— William Safire

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

— Samuel Goldwyn, Jr

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

— Charles Dickens

I like to keep breaking the typecast and cliches.

— Kirti Kulhari

“A cliche is a cliche because it works”

— Feige Gornish

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

— Harsha Bhogle

“Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...”

— Rafael Reyes

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

— Amanda Shires

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

— Stephen Fry

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

— Douglas Wood

“You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.”

— Christine Amsden

“Cliches remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that other have trod this ground long ago.”

— Miguel Syjuco

Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.

— Vince Lombardi

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

— Simon Van Booy

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and…

— Rachel Machacek

Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of…

— Rafael Yglesias

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a…

— Tariq Ali

“ Do You Come Here Often?' and 'Be Part of the Action' Have Become Clichéd "Coast Guard Sees Increasing Need for Icebreakers"—headline,…

— James Taranto

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

— Josephine de La Baume

There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a…

— Derren Brown

“One of the more ignominious features of love was that you could only express it with cliches...it made you sound like a…

— Lisa Kleypas

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a…

— Dean Koontz

I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are…

— Charlotte Brontë

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches.…

— Bill Laswell

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something…

— Terrence Malick

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out.…

— Adrian Hodges

“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice…

— David Levithan

I will never be heard for what I have to say. Why? People like cliches which I find a mediocre bore and…

— James Smith (me

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know…

— Moderata Fonte

“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I…

— Anna Quindlen

“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that…

— Augustine of Hippo

“As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy.…

— Alec Austin

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine…

— Christine de Pizan

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens