Shallow Quotes

400 quotes by 331 authors

Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift… — Dorothy Parker
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to… — Bill Bryson
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. — Carlos Castaneda
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. — Linus Torvalds
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? — R.D. Blackmore
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.… — Oscar Wilde
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau
Stop it." Isabelle tapped a booted foot in the shallow water at the lake's edge. "Both of you. In fact, all three of you. If… — Cassandra Clare
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — Oscar Wilde
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her… — Cassandra Clare
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the… — Eckhart Tolle
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. — Anne Lamott
I want to be first. I know thatâ€™s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If… — Charlaine Harris
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all… — Hermann Hesse
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of… — William Shakespeare
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow… — Oscar Wilde
Iâ€™m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins
Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow! — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea. — Kim Edwards

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