Quotes About Superficiality

I'm fascinated by people's obsession with how they look and how humans really do judge you within the first few seconds of meeting you.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

Quanto mais velha fico, menos paciência tenho para mesquinharias e para a busca de coisas superficiais. Existe uma riqueza que não tem nada a ver com dinheiro, e ela vem da perspectiva e da sabedoria de prestar atenção à sua vida. Ela tem tudo e mais um pouco para lhe ensinar. E o que eu sei de verdade é que não existe recompensa maior do que a alegria de um bom aprendizado.

Zengin olmak belki de sürekli bir gibi yapmak haliydi.(s.188)

We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

And anyway most people are idiots. They don't care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.

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

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality," he said.

It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts, his inner demons - at the expense of his outer life.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

He was all too aware that no matter how handsome you looked, how full of life and energy you were, underneath your skin was a grinning skeleton.

TV news is quite probably the most superficial form of journalism ever invented. Hunter Thompson characterized it fifty years ago as a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men go to die.

Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of suffering is to repair that which is faulty in a man's personality.

See, an ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after an ugly person gets at least cab-fare.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are… The common people are always impressed by appearances and results.

take consolation from the fact that the brighter the individual, the more he or she detests small talk.

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.