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| Literature is the orchestration of PLATITUDES. | Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright |
| Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist PLATITUDES contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. | Walter Benjamin | 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher |
| The Republicans stroke PLATITUDES until they purr like epigrams. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Proverbs are always PLATITUDES until you have personally experienced the truth of them. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. | James Baldwin | 1924-1987, American Author |
| 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. | Katherine F. Gerould | |
| A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. | Lionel Strachey | |
| In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
