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Commonplace Quotes

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

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

Adoniram Judson
Let Me, Commonplace

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

Elizabeth of the Trinity
Vigilant, Commonplace, Ifs

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Chuck Jones
Ordinary, Esoteric, Commonplace
Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan

Space is going to be commonplace.

Christa McAuliffe
Space, Corny, Commonplace

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

W. Somerset Maugham
Mind, Commonplace
W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1397, eBookIt.com

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

Marie Bashkirtseff
Art, Charming, Commonplace

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

Jean-Henri Fabre
Fields, Corny, Commonplace
Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.175, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais
Success, Commonplace

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
Appearance, Fooled, Commonplace

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

Kenneth Rexroth
Difficult, Verses, Commonplace
Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unity, Universal, Commonplace

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Franklyn Ajaye
Originality, Commonplace
Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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

Arthur Conan Doyle
Commonplace, Depends, Unnatural
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'A Case of Identity'.

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

Gail Caldwell
Grief, Territory, Commonplace

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Aristotle
Metaphor, Halfway, Commonplace

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Mason Cooley
Tragedy, Comedy, Commonplace

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding, Mind, Commonplace

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

Richard Attias
African Women, Commonplace
"The Promise of Africa’s Women" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2013.

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

Margery Sharp
Poet, Natural, Commonplace

To genius life never grows commonplace.

James Russell Lowell
Genius, Grows, Commonplace

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

Gertrude Atherton
Mystery, Commonplace, Eternal
Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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

Fulton Oursler
Miracle, Hug, Commonplace
Fulton Oursler (1997). “The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Timeless Story of the Life of Jesus Christ”, Wings

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Charles Lamb
Observation, Truism, Commonplace
Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

Anything seems commonplace, once explained.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Seems, Commonplace

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
Death, Life Death, Commonplace
"Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

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