Books Quote by Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear…

— Janet Fitch

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged…

— Alain de Botton

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to…

— Remy de Gourmont

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

— Harsha Bhogle

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the…

— Martin Amis

“What's a cliché”

— Anonymous

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

— Kevin Abstract

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

— Janet Fitch

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not…

— Leonard Bishop

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

— Terry Pratchett