Superficial Appeal Quotes

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

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

Most people who try those bizarre trends are looking for magic bullets. There's usually a sexy promise attached to these trends - related to diet or fitness - that many people find too tempting to resist.

Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

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.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.