“You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!” — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“ 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass. Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You may be decay and a platitude Of flesh, but I have no other such memory of life.” — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin 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
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
“But that's not a very original idea, is it? It's really just a platitude ... sort of like a Florida sunset, Nevertheless,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Assail me not with noble policy, for I care not at all for platitude. And surrender such tedious detail to greater minds… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a platitude is not a plan. So I am encouraging people to turn towards the Green Party if they're looking for… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace 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
“Because—isn’t it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture—? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I’m going mad with the knowledge that despite the fact that this is now a platitude, we’re repeating ourselves. Are” — Ray Buckley Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
