Quotes About Superficiality

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all.

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.

I hate fake people. You know what I'm talking about. Mannequins.

For most people, we are only superficial beings, a sketch, a few scrawled lines.

Algo que se repite —dijo—, algo que permanece durante varios años, curiosa forma de superficialidad. Entonces fue Southworth quien le

my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. He talks every language as well as the rest of us, Susy had once said of him, but at least he talks one language better than the others.

She knew that Virginia's survey of the world was limited to people, the clothes they wore, and the carriages they drove in. Her own universe was so crammed to bursting with wonderful sights and sounds that, in spite of her sense of Virginia's superiority - her beauty, her ease, her confidence - Nan sometimes felt a shamefaced pity for her.

a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.

What was the use of being beautiful and attracting attention if one were perpetually doomed to relapse again into the obscure mass of the Uninvited?

All they wanted now was what she herself wanted only a few short hours ago: to be bowed to when they caught certain people's eyes; to be invited to one more dull house; to be put on the Rector's Executive Committees, and pour tea at the Consuless's "afternoons".