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Quotes About Shallow

There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us would care to admit. As shallow as it may be, better-looking people have been shown in various studies to have higher self-esteem and more charisma, are considered more trustworthy and are better negotiators.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~ Vernon Howard
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
~ Richard Armour
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~ Vernon Howard
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
~ Oscar Wilde
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
~ Philip James Bailey
Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.
~ Shahrukh Khan
I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.
~ Gucci Mane
Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.
~ Peter Kreeft
that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually the gravest? Perhaps the wise are grave because they remember the grave.
~ Peter Kreeft
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
~ Philip Roth
People always say that in England we lead shallow lives. Our lives must be shallow because we live in a country where nobody believes in anything any more. My whole life, I've been told: 'Western civilization? An old bitch gone in the teeth,' And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they're fighting for something they believe in.
~ David Hare
Digital communication is twenty-five thousand miles wide and a half-inch deep.
~ David Jeremiah
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
~ David Lynch
For faster or deeper water, use a big fly tied on a size 8 to 12 hook, and weight it heavily with tungsten bead heads and/ or nontoxic wire. For slower or shallower water, use a small fly tied on a size 12 to 16 hook and weighted only with a bead head or only with wire.
~ Yvon Chouinard
If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow.
~ Hugh Hefner
The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.
~ Idries Shah
He's dead, Walt. Like you always say, 'Buried in a shallow grave and shit off a cliff by a coyote.
~ Craig Johnson
Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common
~ D.E. Stevenson
Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.
~ Tim Ferriss
Life is far kinder to shallow people.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Pru, you have the depth of a puddle.
~ Lisa Kleypas