trite remark
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Readers of The Mill on the Floss will remember that whenever Mr. Tulliver found himself confronted by any little difficulty he was accustomed to make the trite remark, "It's a puzzling world."
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
It is but repeating a trite remark to say that happiness depends more upon organization than upon circumstances, more upon what we are than upon what we have.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
"I did not think there could be any place in England so beautiful," she said by-and-by, when George disturbed her with some trite remark upon the scene.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
It is a useful though a trite remark, that there is great stupidity in the proposal to lay up in a barn the portion of a soul.
From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William
