I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what… — Michael Moore 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
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
There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in),… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes. — Liz Carr 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
There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty 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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
