Looking Glass Quotes

58 quotes by 51 authors

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. — Michel de Montaigne
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. — Thomas a Kempis
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired. — Walter Scott
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she… — Henry Fielding
Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like… — Simon Pegg
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The… — Lydia Lunch
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a… — Ivan Sutherland
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home.… — Dorothy Draper
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of… — Ann Voskamp
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown… — Michio Kaku
The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will… — Gautama Buddha
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are.… — Philip Yancey
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. — Carl Sandburg
The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the same… — Mary McCarthy
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with… — Mark Twain
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses… — David Fairchild
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am… — William Shakespeare
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the… — William Morris Hunt

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