Shallow Quotes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A man of extreme fickleness of principle and full of childish vanity

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

The West will one day regret its shallow ideas that alienate people from their true nature. One must seek the right religion and the right belief.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in her chair,yearning for confirmation that he gets it,that they are like-minded in their observations of others and the circumspect way they view the world. "Oh,let's see," he says,rubbing his jaw. "Superficial.Artificial.Sheep. They're more worried about how they come across to others than who they really are.They exhaust themselves in their pursuit of things that don't really matter.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.