Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.