Quotes About Shallowness

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.

What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

It is not her fault that among other people love has taken on such shallow form and has been reduced to some basic convenience, to a mere entertainment.

The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.

They frowned, looked to one another with shallow and delighted eyes, eyes that just skimmed over the surface of things without understanding.

MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

With the essential shallowness of a negative, unimaginative nature, she was unable to conceive the fact that sensibilities were anything else than weaknesses. She had thought my weaknesses would put me in her power, and she found them unmanageable forces.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side of a second doughnut in her life. What was any of that to me?

We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that are as decorative and unsubstantial as we are.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness.

Lord, we know that you will come again in glory to raise the living and the dead. Resurrect us now from the death of comfort, complacency, sloth, and shallowness that we might witness to your love in life and death. Amen.