It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“He was trying to do contrite, which is a combination of con and trite .” — Andy Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite. — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should… — Joanna Cassidy Copy Share Image
“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths” — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
“As trite as the thought was, even her butterflies got the butterflies with just a tilt of his lips, and it had… — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a… — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“I know it sounds a bit trite, but I really do get everything I want now. They say life is a game,… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [...] have come to believe that all the greatest… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. — John Singleton Copy Share Image
Two people meeting each other-what do you say? There's some pretty trite stuff. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“This really happens. It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract,… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only… — Martha Albrand Copy Share Image
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
![“We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [...] have come to believe that all the greatest truths are trite and banal, when spoken aloud in their simplest and most honest terms. Perhaps they can only be imparted in the Cant, in a language which writes itself onto your…” quote by Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/105/hal-duncan-11149_learning_we-are-our-own-worst-enemies-how-banal-a_1935295.jpg)
