Common Quotes

There is no one to sweep a common hall.

As common as dirt.

Common ground.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

The lack of pretension extends to the way we dress. Our jeans are dirty not because they’re rarely washed, but because we work with grease, dirt or steel. That ground-in grime is a badge of a day’s work well done… Most Red Americans can’t deconstruct postmodern literature, give proper orders to a nanny, pick out […]

Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

What a commonplace genius he (Thomas Hardy) has; or a genius for the commonplace, I don’t know which.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

All common things – each day’s events, That with the hour begin and end; Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.