Quotes About Triteness

Very full of cant phrases

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the flat.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!