Quotes About Superficiality

Of course there are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten before the end is told—before the end is told—even if there happens to be any end to it.

Mindenki nagyon barátságosan viselkedett vele szemben, és senki sem volt hozzá igazán kedves; mindenki szóba állt vele, és mindenki csak semmiségeket mondott neki.

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life.

Civilization is faces, appearances: when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.

[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

I'd always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony self–deprecation, then half–listened with painted–on sincerity to the one–upmanship rebuttals. Mannequins. Robots. Androids. Pseudo–people laboring in the vineyards of pseudo–intellectualism to gather the bitter grapes of self–aggrandizement.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind. The ease with which they are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling.

These students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind.

The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

Ero distratto... Scusa... Perché dici che io non ho più anima? Perché fingi di essere così profondo, e gli altri invece tutti merde?

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

we buy things we don't need with money we don't have in order to impress people we don't like.

People were running around buying things they couldn't afford with money they didn't have to impress people they didn't even like

Compramos cosas que no necesitamos con dinero que no tenemos a fin de impresionar a personas que no queremos.

Some of the prettiest girls need to put a paper bag over their personality.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Four million people going around in aimless circles, going nowhere, getting nowhere. And they're all doing their jobs. And when they're not doing their jobs, all they're thinking of is gratifying their petty little needs; dressing up in weird clothes; going to weird parties; muddling their way through their weird little lives...

we were all experts at making a great deal out of very little, even while we all still had a lot, and were still being incited by advertisements to spend and use and discard

Beautiful people are often rather boring, don't you think? Less beautiful people might rather like to think so, said Harriet. But you know what I mean, my dear. All those wealthy men choosing a wife like a piece of furniture or a fine picture, to furnish the house, and then having to listen to her at breakfast twenty years later.

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon.