Quotes About Superficiality

Reactionaries seek to excise and destroy the deepest and most essentially human aspects of a nation's character; they promulgate its most inhuman and superficial aspects. They prefer the husk to the kernel. When they promulgate nationalism, reactionaries try to destroy what people share at a deep level; they recognize only what people share at the most superficial level.

Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.

Sia detto alla sfuggita, il successo è una cosa piuttosto lurida; la sua falsa somiglianza col merito inganna gli uomini. Per la folla, la riuscita ha quasi lo stesso profilo della supremazia. Il successo, sosia della capacità, sa ingannare per bene la storia.

It circled back to her looks, as most snide comments did. Surely a pretty blond girl had to be shallow and dim-witted.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Ia tak mengerti kenapa banyak sekali teman-temannya buang-buang uang begitu banyak untuk membeli aneka beha dan celana dalam ajaib yang toh akan ditanggalkan juga dalam waktu sekejab.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

She wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

People laugh at things they don't understand. It makes them feel safe. But it's a false feeling. They are no safer. They just feel as if they are. The world is full of people too foolish to judge the difference.

Primeiro grande dispositivo a produzir social e regularmente a personalidade aparente, a moda estetizou e individualizou a vaidade humana, conseguiu fazer do superficial um instrumento de salvação, uma finalidade de existência.

Speaking with John McWhorter] I take umbrage at the lionisation of lightweight, empty-suited, empty-headed motherfuckers like Ibram X. Kendi. Who couldn't carry my book bag. He hasn't read a fucking thing. If you ask him what Nietzsche said, he would have no idea. He's an unserious, superficial, empty-suited, lightweight - he's not our equal, not even close.

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

What gown and what head-dress she should wear on the occasion became her chief concern. She cannot be justified in it. Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim...

The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

They knew his taxi better than they knew him, if you see what I mean. People always know the outside better than they know the inside.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.