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Quotes About Depth

There is less in this than meets the eye.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
~ John Buchan
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
~ Janet Malcolm
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
~ Herman Melville
Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Still waters run deep.
~ English proverb
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
~ William Shakespeare
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
~ John Morley
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
~ William Shakespeare
The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
~ Northrop Frye
Deep down I'm really shallow.
~ Linda Merkin
For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Some words are like the old Roman galleys; large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
~ William Jovanovich
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
~ Ezra Pound
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~ Edith Wharton
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
~ Author Unknown
Sto vise samujes i cutis o sebi,sve ti je plici u ludji razgovor tvog susjeda.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ostade u njemu nešto stišano i zamišljeno. Ono neizrecivo, što iskusni i napa?eni ljudi ?uvaju u sebi, kao skrovito dobro, i što im se, samo pokatkad, nesvesno odražava u pogledu, kretnji i re?i.
~ Ivo Andri?
What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.
~ J. M. Coetzee
He loves me. You sound surprised. Nobody ever did. Not like this. It's easy to say, for some people. The words. But it's not just words with Roarke. He sees inside me, and it doesn't matter.
~ J.D. Robb
Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you're deep.
~ J.D. Robb
The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil.
~ J.D. Robb