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Cliche Quotes

Jack Kerouac quote: "cliches are truisms and all truisms are true"
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true Jack Kerouac
Ann Beattie quote: "Clichs so often befall vain people."
Clichs so often befall vain people. Ann Beattie
Clichs, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. Hannah Arendt
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. Ron Paul
Matthew Vaughn quote: "Cliches are what make you understand something."
Cliches are what make you understand something. Matthew Vaughn
Dick Schaap quote: "Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose."
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Dick Schaap
They think in terms of a sentimental ballad. And that's what terrifies you about them. It isn't their cruelty, it isn't even their shrewdness - it's their extraordinary naivete. Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche. Everything is born out of a cliche, rests on a cliche, survives by a cliche. And they believe in the cliches - there's no hope Jean Rhys
Two clichs make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichs are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.(Casablanca, or, The Clichs Are Having a Ball) Umberto Eco
Stephen Fry quote: "It is a clich that most clichs are true, but then like most..."
It is a clich that most clichs are true, but then like most clichs, that clich is untrue Stephen Fry
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed. Umberto Eco
Lord Snow says that every man may be permitted his own clichs. But this is not enough. He must invent his own clichs and then persist in them until, if other people use them, their source is instantly recognizable. Thus plagiarism shall be turned into homage. Quentin Crisp
Terry Prachett quote: "The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the..."
The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. Terry Prachett
Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our—to us—ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife for a younger woman, used to complain, “People tell me it’s a clich. But it doesn’t feel like a clich to me.” Yet it was, and is. As all our lives would prove, if we could see them from a greater distance—from the viewpoint, say, of that higher creature imagined by Einstein. Julian Barnes
Newt Gingrich quote: "In every election in American history both parties have their..."
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. Newt Gingrich
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. Wolcott Gibbs

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