Quotes About Superficial

The surfaces fool us.

Another alternative would have been to give you what's called a popular-scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don't understand, and to gratify what I believe to be on of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science.

The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.

People just don't get it. Appearance is arbitrary. And if it's not arbitrary the it's compensation. Pretty face, ugly heart. Either way, it's not something earned.

The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Fine, he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

You put a weasel in a forty-dollar suit, and you get a forty-dollar weasel.

S'ils avaient un peu plus d'amour-propre, ils ne se laisseraient pas aller à se contenter (même avec passion) d'un objectif aussi superficiel et d'un avenir aussi étroit.

Bubbly is bogus.

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.

Beauty's but skin deep.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

Then she added a sentence I will always remember: "the beauty of mind Cerullo had from childhood never found an outlet, Greco, it has all ended up in her face, in her breasts, in her thighs, in her ass, places where it soon fades and will be as if she never had it.

And so, in spite of his virtues, he was a frivolous, superficial man, an animal organism who dripped sweat and fluids and left behind, like the residue of a careless pleasure, living material conceived, nourished, shaped within female bellies.

uncultured youths who make random pronouncements on everything

If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

For some actors, to let go of the glam look isn't easy.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.