Quotes About Superficiality

Now he realized he'd probably understood nothing, and it also occurred to him what a superficial, ultimately fraudulent act it was to sleep with a person you did not really know.

The sad truth is that pretty people can slide through all kinds of scrapes that'd end very badly for the ugly.

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

Jezal favoured him with a terse nod and turned away to look up the avenue. He could think of no possible reason why an officer would want to be familiar with the common soldiers. Furthermore, he was scarred and ugly. Jezal had no use whatever for ugly people.

What I have is surface. Grooming, good genetics, whatever. Whether you've rolled out of bed an hour ago without having had a shower for three days, or you're wearing a designer suit, there is a deep, perfect beauty to you that takes my breath away.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

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

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

For that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

No, mi amor. Lo que pasa es cuando uno se hace el profundo parece inteligente, pero nada más.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they're not, really.

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

from the earliest passages to the diary's final entry, in which she talks about her "dual personality," the lighthearted, superficial side that lies in wait to ambush and push away her "better, deeper, and purer" self.

also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

Tis easy to see they're not used to having anything the way the brag about everything.

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.