Quotes of Hackneyed - somelinesforyou

“ The cliche is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response. ”

- John Gross

“ The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. ”

- Rosa Parks

“ I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is. ”

- Kylie Minogue

“ No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him… ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. ”

- Robert Mitchum
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