Quotes about Superficiality

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.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.

Rich and idle and ornamental societies must produce many more such situations;

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.