Quotes About Superficiality

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large...And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them.

in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.

in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning. Meaning

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.

when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.

clichéd in their repetition and their superficiality, but part of an identity that saved us from feeling utterly lonely and detached, mere passengers on a circular rock spinning through space.

Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid

She thought there was a curious hardness about her, as if her beauty was a deceptively rich topsoil, thinly spread over rock.… Finding that no one was looking in her direction, Mrs. Pollifax

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Gold nugget jewelry is bad.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

You look like a crazy person," Adri said. "You look boring and average," Lily replied.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.