William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Quotes

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

When I look in the mirror, what do I see? I see a strong, independent, working woman who is very much in love and very happy with the reflection in that mirror.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.