Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
~Solomon Short

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
~Dick Schaap

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Cliches are what make you understand something.
~Matthew Vaughn

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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
~Evelyn Waugh

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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
~Charles Olson

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I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
~Timothy Spall

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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
~William Safire

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Let's have some new cliches.
~Samuel Goldwyn

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Most of my cliches aren't original.
~Chuck Knox

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Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
~Wolcott Gibbs

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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
~Matthew Vaughn

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