Quotes About Superficiality

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Social climbers are like ghosts. Scarey and transparent at the same time.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

They always act like they're having an amazing time, they're louder and high-pitched, shoving each other and screaming with laughter at nothing. But Becca knows what they're like when they're happy, and that's not it. Their faces on the way home afterwards look older and strained, smeared with the scraps of leftover expressions that were pressed on too hard and won't lift away.

Everything about her is pure faultless middle-class–the accent, the clothes, the hair, the china patterns, it's as if she ordered herself from a catalogue–but you can see the incredible effort that goes into every second of it.

You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.

People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream that who really wants to read between the lines, because it's all so out there in front of you and boring and white bread.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

Shallow men believe in luck.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

The reversion of Windows to a CLI when it was in distress proved to Mac partisans that Windows was nothing more than a cheap facade, like a garish afghan flung over a rotted-out sofa.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.