Top 115 Trite Quotes & Sayings

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It was really this strenuous challenge to citizens to use their moments of leisure, which he defined as time away from work, to collect the facts that were necessary for full democratic participation.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's what's important to them and what's beautiful to them.

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.

To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.