Martin Parr Quotes

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Every person is observant of the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.