Quotes About Superficiality

A glover will only ever want the skin, the surface, the outer layer. Everything else is useless, an inconvenience, an unnecessary mess. She thinks of the private cruelty behind something as beautiful and perfect as a glove.

talentless airheads who are famous for absolutely nothing except being famous?

If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache.

high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said. "What?" "Never mind. Before your time," Lucas said.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said.

Jael feared it was true, that she was shallow, dissolute. Trendy.

The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.

You got to be awful rich to dress as bad as you do," he said.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

Life is much like FACEBOOK. People will 'Like' your problems and 'Comment.' But no one is gonna solve them. Because everybody seems so busy in 'Updating' their own.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

The thicker one gets with some people the thinner they become.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Attractive girls are always the most insecure. While these shrek looking bi...es, walk around thinking they're the sh...