Deny Quote by Edward Abbey

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

— H. L. Mencken

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

— Stanley Baldwin

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

— Margaret Thatcher

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths.

— Frances Noyes Hart

“Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.”

— John Furia Jr

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Aldous Huxley

Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too…

— Robert Grudin

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

— Claude C. Hopkins

“APOPHASIS  (APO'PHASIS)   n.s.[Lat.    a denying.] A figure in rhetorick, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to wave what he would plainly insinuate; as,…

— Samuel Johnson

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

— Stanislaw Lem

“Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.”

— George Washington