Quotes About Superficiality

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools

The veneer of civilization is very thin.

En cuanto se entablaba una conversación con él, no se podía evitar exclamar: «¡Qué hombre tan bueno y agradable!». Un instante después, uno ya no decía nada y, a los tres minutos, pensaba: «¿Qué demonios es esto?», y se apresuraba a alejarse, pues, si no, le invadía un hastío mortal.

Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them.

Nos relacionábamos despreciándonos mutuamente y volviéndonos cada vez más triviales; si esto es lo que el mundo llama «amistad», entonces no hay duda de que eramos amigos.

Ta??d??? yafta m?? E?lenceli bir deyi?. Yafta ta??yorsa daha az tehlikeli de?il mi ? Boynunda ç?ng?rak ta??yan bir kedi yavrusu gibi tatl? görünüyor. Yaftas?z sefahat, daha ürkütücü.

What superficiality- and what stupidity- there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest on things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

In this world, the more superficial, the more you will surely be loved:

What superficiality - and what stupidity - there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty.

This novel was doomed from the start. All posture and no substance. Whether I write one page or a hundred, it amounts to the same thing. Though I knew this from the start.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Today, our society is caught in the grip of superficial values—glamour, glitter, materialism, a pathological emphasis on youth, a neglect of the elderly, the handicapped. Families are being broken up under the impact of a frenzied desire for success. Violence is glorified and paraded in front of children every day on the media.

Physical beauty, of all the curses, was obviously the best you could get. It was still a curse though.

Goodness boy, you're like a clear pool. I can see ten feet through you, and you're barely three feet deep.