The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.
Beware not to get caught up in the thick of thin things.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
I am deeply superficial.
[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think not; in the Dark and the Deep there are truths that can always heal. It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that everywhere threaten the true, and the good, and the beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound. It is an exuberant and fearess shallowness that everywhere is the modern danger, the modern threat, and that everywhere nonetheless calls to us as savior.
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.
Never lose your sense of the superficial.
An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.
You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.
You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others
Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.
The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
