Quotes About Superficial

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?" "Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take off her shirt. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone."

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

She isn't…substantial enough. She is a line drawing of a woman that has been only partially colored in.

She has new hair and new boobs, but her insides are still rotten.

I have sometimes been sad that Tennessee Williams wrote that line for Blanche DuBois, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Many of us have been saved many times by the kindness of strangers, but after a while it sounds trite, like a bumper sticker. And that's what makes me sad, that a beautiful and true line comes to be used so often that it takes on the superficial sound of a bumper sticker.

Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid... knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversations of his elders he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

It is ever the trial of the scrupulous explorer to be saluted with the impatient scorn of chatterers who attempt only the smallest achievements, being indeed equipped for no other. And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.

Don't judge a book by it's cover

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

After all, they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.

they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.

Under the glitzy, glamorous surface of the simplest popcorn flick, there were often hidden depths of meaning.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

noticed that he had small hands and, worse again, small feet. You could barely see his shoes under the cuffs of his trousers. I hated men with small hands and feet. It made them seem very unmanly, like imps or gnomes.

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

Truly, he felt like "a cat biting on a urine bubble—all empty delight!

You are right, he cried with an immense sigh of relief. It is quite superficial. His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.