Mirrors Quotes
1733 Mirrors quotes by 1199 unique authors
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What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,…
— Honore de Balzac
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
— Truman Capote
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.
— Kristin Hannah
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...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
— Virginia Woolf
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Admiring yourself?” The Inquisitor’s voice but through his reverie. “You wont look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you.” “You do seem obsessed…
— Cassandra Clare
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She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were the same, she and I Both bound by potent lies.…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that…
— Nicholas Sparks
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In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
— Edgar Lee Masters
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Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look,…
— Jonathan Stroud
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In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of…
— Lisa Genova
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If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
— Steven Wright
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She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known…
— Christine Feehan
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So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made…
— Ellen Hopkins
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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self…
— Bruce Lee
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There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes,…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning,…
— Anna Akhmatova
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You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you…
— Connie Willis
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A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.
— J R Ward
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of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things…
— Jerry Spinelli
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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what…
— James Hillman
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