Platitude Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin
Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx
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
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry
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
applause, n. The echo of a platitude. — Ambrose Bierce
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
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. — H. L. Mencken
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Platitude Quotes

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