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Quotes About Superficial

Zuzana wondered if she could have been wrong about him, but dismissed the thought. Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly had issues. Just looking at him made her wish she had a paintball gun, but hell, you couldn't pack for every eventuality.
~ Laini Taylor
The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
~ Gerrit Smith
No churlish moralist ever uttered a falser maxim than that "Beauty is but skin deep." Why Beauty is so deep that nobody has ever got to the bottom of it.
~ Thomas Clark Henley
There have been superficial changes, with results at best ambiguous and, at worst, disastrous. Morally, there has been no change at all and the moral change is the only real one.
~ James Baldwin
The term 'socialite' makes me feel pretty uncomfortable. To me, those are the women who get dressed up and go from party to party. That's all they do.
~ Kathy Hilton
The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
~ Robin Givhan
Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
~ Carrie Snow
I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.
~ Casey Affleck
My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.
~ Glenda Jackson
Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.
~ Jens Martin Skibsted
The easy way out is the choice of the myopic.
~ E.L. Neve
Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
~ Tilda Swinton
If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.
~ Shulamith Firestone
From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.
~ Masego
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
~ J. G. Holland
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
~ Josh Billings
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
~ Voltaire
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's cliché, but you know sorry doesn't actually do anything, right? It's like a birthday card a month after the day has passed. It's just a, a, a… a token, a word that makes you feel like you did something but that doesn't do anything to fill the hole inside of me.
~ Chuck Wendig