By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals. [ Christopher Marlowe ]
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. [ Lavater ]
Where water is shallow no boat will ride. [ Proverb ]
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. [ George Eliot ]
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
A little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. [ Alexander Pope ]
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. [ Alexander Pope ]
Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
Passions are likened best to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
He leaps into a deep river to avoid a shallow brook. [ Proverb ]
Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time. [ Carlyle ]
Shallow wits censure every thing that is beyond their depth. [ Proverb ]
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. [ Alphonse Karr ]
Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The only thing that grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. [ Emerson ]
Shallow men speak of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
Superstitions, errors, and prejudices are cobwebs continually woven in shallow brains. [ De Finod ]
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 as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]
Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
People who love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty and their fidelity is either the lethargy of custom or lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what constancy is to the intellectual life, simply a confession of failure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]