5 quotes about Banality

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Butler, Samuel

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Chtcheglov, Ivan

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.

Ionesco, Eugene

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underused of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction.

Propper-Seton, Cynthia

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Woolf, Virginia