| 1. | For the rest, whether trite or novel, it is short. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | "I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | All this will sound very trite to students of any mettle, but there are large numbers who waste no end of time working in a purely mechanical, lifeless way, and with their minds anywhere but concentrated upon the work before them. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |