Quotes About Superficiality

Your skin is a waste of space because there's no heart inside of you

That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

Making It in Hollywood is the most disgusting phrase in the English language. It's more disturbing than prolific serial killer and rare terminal illness.

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace] "Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

When we have made our love and gamed our gaming,   Drest, voted, shone, and maybe something more; With dandies dined, heard senators declaiming,   Seen beauties brought to market by the score, Sad rakes to sadder husbands chastely taming,   There's little left but to be bored or bore. Witness those ci-devant jeunes hommes who stem The stream, nor leave the world which leaveth them.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Those of the upper class began to look around for ways to get darker. It became the fashion for them to spend hours at the seashore basking naked in the sunshine and then to dash back, heavily bronzed, to their homes, and, preening themselves in their dusky skins, lord it over their paler, and thus less fortunate, associates. Beauty shops began to sell face powders named Poudre Nègre, Poudre le Egyptienne and L'Afrique.

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

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

You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Deep down I'm really shallow.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

They had no more depth than their Facebook posts. Than their relentless egoism. Than their soulless frivolities.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

Money can be pretty ugly.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.