Hearing Quote by Stanley Baldwin Download Open image “A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.” — Stanley Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hearing People Tired Truth
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. — H. L. Mencken 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
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley 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
“Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.” — John Furia Jr Copy Share Image
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored,… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I've never missed a vote. The veterans' committee keeps track of hearings, and I've never missed a… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen... — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I always felt like the only messaging I was hearing around faith was, you need to be perfect or you can leave. — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? — Karen Scalf Linamen Copy Share Image
I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
