pious platitudes

Repeat your pious platitudes in the drowsy ears of the faithful, and read your Bible to heretics, as kings read some forgotten riot-act to stop and stay the waves of revolution.

If you want to talk pious platitudes to me by rote, please don’t, for we should be sure to quarrel.

The world does not need more pious platitudes delivered on the anniversary of still-unfathomable violence and pain and destruction.

"They want lies," he laughed, "they want pious platitudes; well, they shall have them, and they shan't suspect that the man who utters them is drunk, and that he's living in hell."

Everybody has seen weaklings who were full of pious platitudes.