Quotes About Commonplace

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Banality is sometimes striking.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.

Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this matter.

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

were almost commonplace.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously clichéd business.

This conversation was remarkable only in its unremarkableness.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

The obvious, the silly and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!

I know better than any one what to think about my own plans, and I am always astonished that the critics dig so deep for them, when the simplest ideas, the most commonplace incidents, are the only inspiration to which the products of art owe their being. ~ April 12, 1851 in the Notice

found little to say beyond the merest commonplace throughout supper, but this silence passed unnoticed in the spate of Lord Bridlington's

My hair, after all, turned out quite ordinary. My face was a commonplace face. I could pick a plain lock, I could cut a plain key; I could bounce a coin and say, from the ring, if the coin were good or bad.—But anyone can do those things, who is taught them.

Like something out of a boring old novel.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.