Commonplace Quotations | Page 2

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Death takes away the commonplace of life.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

To genius life never grows commonplace.