Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous 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
“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
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that… — Edith Wharton 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
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro 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
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is… — John Steinbeck 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
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
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami 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
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go… — Anonymous 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
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. — Margaret Thatcher 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
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
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
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
