Trite Quotes

58 quotes by 53 authors

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old… — Ambrose Bierce
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,… — Martin Amis
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading… — Camille Paglia
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a… — Alexander Smith
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much… — Harold MacMillan
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times.… — Harold MacMillan
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow. — Jan Karon
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and… — Vince Cable
It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. — Rebecca Hall
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding
People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late… — John C. Maxwell
You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day… — Domhnall Gleeson
Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichÃ©s. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. — Charles de Lint
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the… — Ulysses S. Grant
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the… — David Duchovny
It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing. — Salma Hayek

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