best quotations about
Mirror |
and Reflection

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Quotations
![]() | Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 9 likes |
![]() | Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 7 likes |
![]() | For our improvement we need a mirror. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
![]() | The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
![]() | Hearing a phrase that seems very right to you is like seeing your soul in the mirror. — Christine Orban, 1954-, French writer 4 likes |
![]() | A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
![]() | Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. — Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist 4 likes |
![]() | Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
![]() | Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
![]() | The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
![]() | Children always want to look behind mirrors. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
![]() | I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
![]() | Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 1 likes |
![]() | The best mirror is an old friend. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
![]() | Surrealism first recognized itself in the black mirror of anarchism. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
![]() | Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist 1 likes |
![]() | I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself. — François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director 1 likes |
![]() | At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it. — Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
![]() | We saw the stranger and the enemy in the mirror. — Giorgos Seferis, 1900-1971, Greek poet, Nobel 1963 1 likes |
![]() | Look more in the mirror for the Other. — Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
![]() | You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors! — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
![]() | Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. Κάτοπτρον είδους χαλκός εστί, οίνος δε νοός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 10 likes |
Proverbs
![]() | Eyes are the mirror of the soul. 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
![]() | Magic Mirror on the Wall. Who is the fairest one of all? — from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 7 likes |






























