Shallow Quotes

400 quotes by 331 authors

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant… — Vera Nazarian
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. — Jean de la Bruyere
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. — William John Locke
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by… — Charles Caleb Colton
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly
Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony… — Portia de Rossi
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game.… — Lady Gaga
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal… — Steven Cojocaru
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I… — Anthony Hopkins
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. — Garrison Keillor
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds… — Imelda Marcos
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town,… — Felix Mendelssohn
There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. — Dennis Miller
Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. — Joni Mitchell
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. — Guru Nanak

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