Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.” — John Furia Jr Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be creditable; to be credible we must be truthful.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not? — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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