Shallow Attraction Quotes

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

A girl has to be super-hot now for me to be even semi-interested.

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive - she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do.

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.