(13 quotes found)
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
Richard J. Daley
“The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude”
Norman Mailer
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.”
Margaret Thatcher
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Oscar Wilde
“To higher and higher platitudes.”
“He had not given any meaningful interviews, ... Journalists had asked him the same platitudes and he gave the same platitudinous answers.”
David Margolick
“A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.”
Lionel Strachey
“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
Thornton Wilder
“Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.”
Barack Obama
