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Commonplace Quotes

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Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
Adoniram Judson

Authors on Commonplace Quotes: Arthur Conan Doyle W. Somerset Maugham Fulton Oursler Christa McAuliffe Marie Bashkirtseff Walt Disney Jean-Henri Fabre Chuck Jones Franklyn Ajaye Pierre Beaumarchais Richard Attias Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Alexander Smith Gertrude Atherton Elizabeth of the Trinity Gail Caldwell Mason Cooley Aristotle Kenneth Rexroth Adoniram Judson Francois de La Rochefoucauld James Russell Lowell Charles Lamb Margery Sharp
2.
You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.
Elizabeth of the Trinity

3.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Chuck Jones

4.
Space is going to be commonplace.
Christa McAuliffe

5.
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
W. Somerset Maugham

6.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
Marie Bashkirtseff

7.
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
Jean-Henri Fabre

8.
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
Pierre Beaumarchais

9.
Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
Walt Disney

10.
Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.
Franklyn Ajaye

11.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12.
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
Kenneth Rexroth

13.
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
Arthur Conan Doyle

14.
Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
Aristotle

15.
the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
Gail Caldwell

16.
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
Mason Cooley

17.
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
Fulton Oursler

19.
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
Alexander Smith

20.
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
Richard Attias

21.
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton

22.
Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
Arthur Conan Doyle

23.
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
Charles Lamb

24.
To genius life never grows commonplace.
James Russell Lowell

25.
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Margery Sharp