#platitude

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

#experienced #personally #platitudes #proverbs #them

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#platitudes #reach #shall

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

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

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

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

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

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

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

— Margaret Thatcher

#platitudes #true #yes