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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side… — John Brunner 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
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
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
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
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes. — Marianne Williamson 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
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
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
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
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
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
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes. — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
