Quote by Umberto Eco

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a…

— Umberto Eco

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

— Harsha Bhogle

“What's a cliché”

— Anonymous

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

— Alan Bennett

“Clichéd or not, her smile lit up the room like a ball of fired in a darkened sky. Clichés were created for her. End…

— Gail McHugh

“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“A cliche is a cliche because it works”

— Feige Gornish

“A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own…

— Khaled Hosseini

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Sometimes clichés are true.

— Peter Adamson

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

— Janet Fitch

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

— Terry Pratchett