Mirror Quotes

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

The best mirror is an old friend.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.