Platitude Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
— Stanley Baldwin
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
— Karl Marx
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce…
— Mark Doty
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
— Edward Abbey
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
— John Brunner
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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 adult existence, banal…
— David Foster Wallace
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout…
— Mary McCarthy
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Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many.…
— Robert Grudin
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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?
— Christopher Fry
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have…
— George Steiner
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
— Don Marquis
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
— H. L. Mencken
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
— Oscar Wilde
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As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six…
— Edith Wharton
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One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life,…
— Donna Tartt
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Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Platitude Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Platitude Quotes as follows: