A Quote by Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Thatcher
English - Leader
October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013

The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn't for Mr. Trump in this race, people would have allowed politicians to have a pass in talking platitudes about things that will never be accomplished.

Corey Lewandowski

Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people utter when we don't know what else to say. There's comfort in platitudes, and every so often they're accurate, but mainly they're hollow words. It's a sign of how little we're able to directly address the world around us. The language of the times reveals our avoidance.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Hunter S. Thompson

There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We don't think that he knows what he's talking about because it's true: He doesn't.

Rush Limbaugh

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

Principles without programs are platitudes.

George Bernard Shaw

Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths.

Frances Noyes Hart

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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

Rob Payne

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

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth

Bertrand Russell

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

Aldous Huxley

In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.

Amitava Kumar

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

Claude C. Hopkins

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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