Quotes about Superficiality
The supreme vice is shallowness.
- Oscar Wilde
We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces
- Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
- Oscar Wilde
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
- Oscar Wilde
are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
- Oscar Wilde
The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.
- Milan Kundera
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you — except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.
- Ayn Rand
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
- Barbara Kingsolver
They grow the fruit, But eat the rind
- Maya Angelou
The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality".
- Billy Graham
In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.
- Billy Graham
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
- Lady Gaga