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Quotes About Superficial

Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.
~ Amy Leigh Mercree
Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
~ Janet Fitch
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
~ William S. Burroughs
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
~ William Shakespeare
Everything that gristles is not gold.
~ William Shakespeare
And give to dust that is a little giltMore laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
~ William Shakespeare
The fool multitude, that choose by show.
~ William Shakespeare
All that glitters is not gold.
~ William Shakespeare
A nice frame doesn't make a nice picture.
~ Winston Graham
The first two chapters appear to be a record of creation, but this is superficial. The underlying thought is focused on life. These two chapters are a record of life. They are too simple and too brief to be an adequate account of creation. Genesis 1 and 2 were not intended by God to be a record of creation, but a revelation of life.
~ Witness Lee
That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas.
~ Yasmina Reza
A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...
~ Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.
~ Debasish Mridha
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
~ Neal Shusterman
Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
~ Johnny Depp
Life is mostly froth and bubble
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon
A paz, infelizmente, é sempre apenas aparente, e transitória, um fingimento.
~ Javier Marías
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.
~ Jay McInerney
Cu mult mai mult decât ideile, ale c?ror combina?ii ?i sisteme se constituie prea adesea într-un echilibru instabil ?i ne transform? într-o clip?, circumspan?ele ?i temperamentele, care reprezint? ceva mai superficial ?i în acela?i timp mai profund, sunt cele care decid destinul oamenilor.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
En général, vous savez, les gens, les femmes, me plaisent pour des raisons extérieurs, des raisons qui n'ont rien à voir avec elles, posées sur elles comme une robe de chambre ou un manteau qu'on peut poser sur une autre. Une femme me plait par exemple, parce-qu'elle a joué dans un film de Bresson ou bien parce-qu'un homme que j'admire est amoureux d'elle.
~ Jean Eustache
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
~ Jean Kerr
La conversation devint plus générale, plus variée, plus insignifiante…
~ Jean Rosenthal
Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
When he described their actual interactions, I got only the most superficial impression of what she was actually like and a great deal of information about how he felt when he was with her – a sure sign of self-absorption masked as love.
~ Jeanne Safer