Contemporary Quote by Paul Auster

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and…

— Vera Nazarian

“Beauty is a fading flower;”[3] and, applied particularly to woman’s loveliness, there is none more favourite among that bundle of dull platitudes, of insipid,…

— Rhoda Broughton

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

— Ruth Benedict

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.

— Winston Churchill

The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and…

— Eliot Spitzer

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague…

— C. S. Lewis

My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what…

— Sara Gruen

The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern…

— Mary McCarthy

“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston