Cliche Quotes

297 Cliche quotes by 271 unique authors

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal… — Jennifer Weiner
A cliche is everything you've ever heard of. — Janet Fitch
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? — Cassandra Clare
So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I… — Margaret Stohl
Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading… — William Safire
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. — Diana Gabaldon
Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes. — Rachel Cohn
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a… — Mary Balogh
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third,… — Jeff Lindsay
There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you… — Jodi Picoult
You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working. — Matt Haig
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches… — Harlan Coben
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton… — Vladimir Nabokov
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. — Edward Abbey
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.… — H. L. Mencken
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg
Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled.… — John Green
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche… — David Grossman
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish.… — John Green
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can… — Chuck Klosterman
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts… — Roger Ebert
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over? — Mike Quade
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine de La Baume

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