Books Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

— H. L. Mencken

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

— Edward Abbey

“PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million…

— Ambrose Bierce

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

— Thornton Wilder

Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

— Mason Cooley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Aldous Huxley

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

— William Ames

“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice, nor ignorance,…

— Gretta Curran Browne

“Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished,…

— St. Benedict

Faithful to the word given and the idea had.

— Fernando Pessoa