Skin Deep Quotes

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
- Richard Armour

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.
- Julia Quinn

...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
- James Caan

You broke the Man Code, dude. 'No man shall knowingly and with malice aforethought kick another man in the nuts.'"
"Okay, so I kicked him in the nuts. The little fucker was fleeing the scene of a crime where he'd pointed a weapon at my buddies."
[from short story "Beer Run" at the end of Skin Deep]
- Pamela Clare

Beauty's not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful
doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean
that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean
they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful
world. (Gabriel)
- Rachel Cohn

I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins)
I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin (Deep in)
I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison
- Alice Cooper

Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underneath.
Acting right is better than looking right.
Realize what make you special beyond looks.
Evil can look pretty on the outside.
- Shannon Delany

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
- Phyllis Diller

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.
- Stephen R Donaldson

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
- Redd Foxx

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
- Jennifer Lopez

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.
- Lauren Hammond

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
- Dorothy Parker

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
- Vernon Howard

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.
- Herman Melville

You want more of me, don't you, Barrons? I got under your skin deep. I hope you got addicted to me. I was a wild one, wasn't I? I bet you never had sex like that in your entire existence, huh, O Ancient One? I bet I rocked your perfectly disciplined little world. I hope wanting me hurts like hell!
Mac
- Karen Marie Moning

Beauty is only skin deep but deception goes right to the core.
- Jayce O Neal

Beauty is only skin deep.
- Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
- Amanda Peet

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
- Ralph Venning

Lust is Only skin deep.
- Joshua Wisenbaker