“ In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ”
- General Colin Powell- Copy
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“ A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. ”
- Lionel Strachey- Copy
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“ A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ”
- Stanley Baldwin- Copy
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“ Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark. ”
- L. B. Walton- Copy
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“ Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn list of good intentions. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound… ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
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