Quotes of: Platitudes Keyword

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

Richard J. Daley

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

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

H. L. Mencken

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley

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

Stanley Baldwin

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

Don Marquis

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

Oscar Wilde

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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

The 13 Clocks

Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.

Touched with Sight

To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.

Marianne Williamson

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

101 Ethical Dilemmas

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.

The Jagged Orbit

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Havelock Ellis

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Che Guevara

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

Jack Vance

Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

Jack Davenport

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

Penelope Wilton