Quotes About Superficiality

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But still...' 'Everybody pretends,' Marya was thinking. 'French people pretend every bit as much, only about different things and not so obviously. She'll know that when she's been here as long as I have.

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

C'est comme s'ils leur disaient : Sachez que l'homme n'est rien que par ses habits, que votre prix est tout dans les vôtres. Faut-il s'étonner que de si sages leçons profitent à la jeunesse, qu'elle n'estime que la parure, et qu'elle ne juge du mérite que sur le seul extérieur ?

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the 'ESPY's' are an especially embarrassing example.

We often judge people by their cars and the money they have... Sometimes worth is decided based on outer appearances and that's sad.

I hate the concept of beauty for the sake of it. It is overrated.

Never judge a book by it's cover . . . judge it by it's price.

It is usually easier to see what lies on the surface of a person rather than taking the time and attention to delve deeper. ~ Lord John "Jack" Byron

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Her mouth was smeared with lipstick and her throat swung bagged and cross-hatched from a wrinkled knob of chin flanked by rouged jowls loosely depending from lumpy cheekbones. Powerful gusts of stale scent emanated from the crannies of her person; the little dog was curled in her lap like a hairy tumor.

The acquisition of material things has become the hallmark of the shallow life.

She shook her head. "I don't know one pretty young man from the other," she declared.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Most art is just surface noise.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.