Quotes About Cliche

There's such an aura around the Trudeau name and I understand that. But it's also so weird for me because I'm still a normal bride and, you know, it's a cliché to say, but Justin is just my Justin.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.

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.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are 'like' and 'as.' If you do not have something interesting to say after you write down those two words, cross them out, because you've entered into the country of cliché. Make sure you have something to say that is new or fresh or in a different way; otherwise, leave them alone.

Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.

Now that Stephen had joined the throng he expected, with so much reading and talking and listening behind him, to be an expert, like everybody else. But it was as if he were trying to write afresh a book that had already been written. The ground was so well prepared, planted up with myth and cliché, and the tradition so firmly established, that he could no more think clearly about his own situation than a medieval painter could, by taking thought, invent perspective.

It was a cliché of romantic love, but no less painful for that: the stronger my feelings, the more remote and unattainable Miranda appeared.

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

You always hear, 'You can do whatever you want. You can make your dreams come true.' It's kind of a cliche, and I always thought of it as a cliche.

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

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 know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

Is 'tired old cliché' one?

She cringed at the clichè.

Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh

To use that old cliché, the only certainty in life is death. It's a certainty, it's the one condition of living that we're given but we often let it tear us apart.

Kristina is a model. It's that old rock star meets model cliche.

I'm a cliché," he said softly. "What?" "I'm a story everyone's heard a thousand times.

The echo of a platitude.

The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.

He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal and sermonizing proverb, the harder it is to implement.