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Quotes About Superficiality

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;
~ Edith Wharton
The parents are of the expensive, cocktail-party-and-chromium kind.
~ Edmund Crispin
You're universally liked because you're such a black hole in space. You don't have any real traits. You're sympa , at least as much as a narcissist can be, but that means nothing. You're beautiful and everybody projects onto you what they're looking for, which is easy to do since you don't stand for anything definite. You're a black hole in space.
~ Edmund White
He looked out over the shirtless, muscled, tanned men and realised that right here, on this disco floor, there was such a concentration of fashion, slimming, money, bleaching, plastic surgery, psychotherapy – and all for naught. In a few years they'd all be old walruses, and in a few more, dead.
~ Edmund White
In those palaces, sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind.
~ Edward Gibbon
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it
~ Albert Einstein
D. vuelve a mostrar sus fauces de hembra de alcoba. La deseo profundamente. Su cercanía es como una premasturbación. Todo mi ser se reduce a la piel. La peau! La peau! ¡Ni qué decir de lo que daría yo por su cuerpo cuando me mira sonriente! D. tan sucia y superficial. Tan adorable. Tan lejana...
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.
~ Alex Flinn
Maggie felt sorry for her, a woman surrounded by beautiful expensive things, all of them by authentic designers, genuine gold-trims, the best-quality fabrics and woods, rare collector accessories of porcelain and ceramic—nothing artificial except her personality. Maggie
~ Alex Kava
Half-learn'd witlings
~ Alexander Pope
With varying vanities, from ev'ry part,   They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100   Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive,   Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
~ Alexander Pope
Some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools
~ Alexander Pope
Quoique bien jeune, j'ai trop connu ce qu'on est convenu d'appeler la vie pour n'avoir pas trouvé au fond de cette mer le mépris de ce qu'on aperçoit à sa surface. ( RAZETTA )
~ Alfred de Musset
Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.
~ Neeraj Kabi
You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like, 'What else do you have? You really can't hold a conversation? Next'.
~ Rotimi
Part of my job is to be looked at and I do think we live in a world where you are judged on your looks. If you look at someone you previously liked and they look old and decrepit, I don't think it's that pleasant.
~ Limahl
There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.
~ Lauren Hutton
I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.
~ Claire Danes
I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
~ Christine Taylor
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Where is the need to go deep into the character and all that? Concentrate on one thing - looking beautiful in front of the camera at all times! That was one lesson I could never learn... trade the inside for the outside!
~ Deepti Naval
In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.
~ Pete Doherty
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
~ Liv Ullmann
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
~ Redd Foxx