Shallow Quotes
400 quotes by 331 authors
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that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed…
— Aleister Crowley
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the…
— Oscar Wilde
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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you…
— Mark Twain
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His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
— William Shakespeare
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Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified…
— Thomas Pynchon
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
— Anais Nin
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The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
— Susanna Clarke
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate…
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so…
— Tamora Pierce
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Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
— Oscar Wilde
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.
— Stephen Schwartz
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Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going…
— Suzanne Collins
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Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade…
— Albert Camus
Who Wrote These Shallow Quotes
331 authors contributed a total of 400 Shallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: