#Superficiality Quotes

“Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.”

“A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!”

“Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it.”

“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.”

“Who would be so mocked with glory, or to liveBut in a dream of friendship,To have his pomp and all what state compoundsBut only painted, like his varnished friends?”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Too much to know is to know nought but fame;And every godfather can give a name.”

“What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.”

“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.”

“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”

“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”

“He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.”

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.”

“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”

“Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.”

“There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange”

“You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.”

“A book? O, rare one,Be not, as is our fangled world, a garmentNobler than that it covers.”

“Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.”

“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”

“How can they knowTruth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,And there alone, that have no solitude?So the crowd come they care not what may come.They have loud music, hope every day renewedAnd heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.”

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”

“One had a lovely face,And two or three had charm,But charm and face were in vain.Because the mountain grassCannot keep the formWhere the mountain hare has lain.”

“There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.”

“Popularity? It's glory's small change.”

“If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.”

“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”

“Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”

“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.”

“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”

“People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.”

“It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.”

“Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly”

“Sphinxes without secrets.”

“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”

“I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.”

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

“To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.”

“What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.”

“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”

“How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.”

“Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.”

“What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.”

“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”

“I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.”