Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel,… — Elisabeth Elliot 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
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times… As a general rule, try to find… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these… — Nadia Bolz-Weber 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
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to… — Richmond Akhigbe Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. — Margaret Thatcher 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
There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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