“A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.”
Lionel Strachey
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
Richard J. Daley
“The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude”
Norman Mailer
“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes”
C.S. Lewis
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Oscar Wilde
