Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
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Shallow
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"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 and found out how shallow she is!"
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Author
"The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!"
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying."
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"Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting."
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"His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it."
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"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
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"Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time"
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"The lips know only shallow tunes"
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"that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time."
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"I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is."
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"Shallow believers prefer a shallow God."
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"No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow."
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"I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."
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"Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism."
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"A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process."
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"Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps."
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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 know ain't so'."
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