Superficiality Quotes
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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
So now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green ...
— John Geddes
[A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.
— Robert Charles Wilson
I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
— Elena Ferrante
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
— Harlan Coben
I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.
— Jeanloup Sieff
What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
— Nenia Campbell
Irony is only skin deep.
— Marty Rubin
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.
— Henry Mintzberg
That's a very important thing in life, to be really looked upon for the qualities which you hold in yourself and not all of superficiality.
— William Moseley
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
— Idries Shah
Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.
— Ulysses Brave
The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.
— Francine Prose
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.
— Jack London
God dwells only in the depths of your heart; he detested the superficial superficiality.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
You must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved ...
— John Geddes
I just can't wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I've been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.
— Francine Pascal
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.
— Richard J. Foster
Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
— Matthew Kelly
Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
— Emil M. Cioran
Live in your roots, not in your branches.
— Nancy Willard
I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
— Gwendoline Christie
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.
— Kato Lomb
The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.
— Chaim Potok
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
— Antonio Porchia
On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?
— Angelina Jolie
Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.
— Jack London
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
— Stephen Fry
Refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing
— Edith Wharton
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.
— Douglas Pagels
When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.
— Michael P. Naughton