Quotes About Superficiality

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

Then I feel, Harry, that 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.

People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

To be popular, one must be a mediocrity.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.

quand elle est en grande toilette, on dirait l'édition de luxe d'un mauvais roman français.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

Look at the tall, thin one with the face like a motor-mascot. Has he ever done an honest day's work in his life? No! A prowler, a trifler, and a blood-sucker! And I bet he still owes his tailor for those trousers!

she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the surface, but precisely because she did.

How does Paul describe the mind caught up in the world? Futile, full of things that do not matter, darkened, blind.

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.

Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age