Platitude Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Platitude

Platitude Quotes & Sayings

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. — H.L. Mencken

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. — Tryon Edwards

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things. — Anne, Princess Royal

'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence. — Nenia Campbell

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry

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 are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. — Arthur Miller

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth. — Ambrose Bierce

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film. — Agnes Varda

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body. — Mary Pipher

Applause: the echo of a platitude. — Marty Rubin

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey

Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living. — Catherine Cookson

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand. — Metallica

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude. — Santiago Cabrera

You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina! — James Thurber

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude ... — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed. — Damian Kulash

Applause, n. The echo of a platitude. — Ambrose Bierce

The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ. — Randy Alcorn

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde

Because "Platitude" was a language everyone spoke — Julie Anne Long