The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks 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 process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley 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
“When you’re faced with tragedy,18 you usually find that you’re no longer surrounded by people—you’re surrounded by platitudes.” — Sheryl Sandberg 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
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot 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
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
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr 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
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
When you're up there on stage, it's applause that you want, not platitudes. — Liz Carr 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
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
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
“So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.” — John Furia Jr 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
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. — Claude C. Hopkins 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
![“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid, trite commonplaces which enrol themselves under the head of moral maxims. Of course it is true—tiresomely, provokingly, heart-breakingly…” quote by Rhoda Broughton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/rhoda-broughton-25508_beauty_beauty-is-a-fading-flower-3-and-applied_371805.jpg)
