Commonplace Quotes

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

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Space is going to be commonplace.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

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

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

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

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

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

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

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

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

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

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

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

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

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.