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Quotes About Superficiality

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
~ Berthold Auerbach
A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.
~ Elizabeth Aston
The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
~ James Joyce
The world is content with setting right the surface of things.
~ John Henry Newman
Hey, Ill be a pretty boy for money.
~ Brendon Urie
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
~ Victor Papanek
Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
~ Dorothy Parker
Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.
~ Walter Slezak
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
~ Andrew Garfield
This bank-note world.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.
~ Leona Helmsley
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
~ Will Rogers
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission
Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.
~ Stephen Smoke
They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!
~ Marcello Mastroianni
The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
~ Anurag Kashyap
The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside.
~ Sarah Brownlee
in these shitty plastic days ...
~ Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.
~ Lorii Myers