Quotes About Superficial

Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people." "People with their nicknames on their license plates.

Hely's feelings didn't run very deep; he lived in sunny shallows where it was always warm and bright.

Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial. It is not that your Julian chooses solely to concentrate on certain, exalted things; it is that he chooses to ignore others equally as important.

But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.

But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial. It

When I disagreed—strenuously—and asked what was wrong with focusing one's entire attention on only two things, if those two things were Art and Beauty, Laforgue replied: "There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty—unless she is wed to something more meaningful—is always superficial.

It is all too easy to accept emotions as primitive "givens" and proceed toward a superficial understanding based on words, arbitrary definitions, and the quiddities of logic rather than biology.

Beauty is skin deep, unless you have really bad tattoos.

Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.

The motivations for human action were depressingly trivial.

Wrote Kennan after the war: "The truth is—there is no avoiding it— that Franklin Roosevelt, for all his charm and for all his skill as a political leader, was, when it came to foreign policy, a very superficial man, ignorant, dilettantish, with a severely limited intellectual horizon.

Many girls at school were infatuated with his shallow athletic splendor and his golden handsome features that were biologically inherited and had nothing to do with the kind of person he might actually be.

gauging the truth of a person merely by looking is a fool's habit.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling. All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.

all this shallow, superficial, external

Fake friends are like plastic, if you're finished using it, you can trash it.

You're so fake, Barbie is jealous.

We can see that, taken collectively, common signs are intellectual rather than emotional, but the intellectuality is apt to be shallow or devoted to superficial subjects

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time.

God damn it, Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.