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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Mary McCarthy
- Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one… — Robert Grudin
- PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is… — 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… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould