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Shallow Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
- Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I…
- 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…
- I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
- 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.…
- 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,…
- 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…
- People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty…
- There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her…
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
- It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
- Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
More Shallow Quotes
- I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I… — Rowan Atkinson
- I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was… — Rachel Bilson
- All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow… — Rita Mae Brown
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is… — Thomas Carlyle
- Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh
- The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh
- One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright
- Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. — Philip Sidney
- Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. — William Shakespeare
- Shallow men believe in luck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson