#latitude

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#platitudes #reach #shall

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

— H. L. Mencken

#be true #everyone #idea #platitude #true

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. ↗

— William H. Seward

#latitude #law #maintenance #makes #northern

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

— Margaret Thatcher

#platitudes #true #yes

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

#courage #his #man #platitudes #successful

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

— Oscar Wilde

#good #kin #life #makes #modern

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

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

#acting #boring #come #everyone #find

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

— Don Marquis

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