Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this generator whose fecundity diminishes with age that he could hope for his torture to be appeased. But it appeared that the power to make him suffer of one of Odette’s statements seemed exhausted, then one of these statements on which Swann’s spirit had until then not dwelled, an almost new word relayed the others and struck him with new vigor.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)