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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.—AESCHYLUS
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I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect, which women never do.—Anonymous
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Be sure to keep a mirror always nigh
In some convenient, handy sort of place,
And now and then look squarely in thine eye,
And with thyself keep ever face to face.—JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, Face to Face
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The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
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What I admire most in men—
To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it.—RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
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When her mother tends her, before the laughing mirror.—GEORGE MEREDITH, Love in the Valley
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My mother says I must not pass
Too near that glass;
She is afraid that I will see
A little witch that looks like me,
With a red mouth to whisper low
The very thing I should not know.—SARAH PIATT, The Witch in the Glass
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Your looking-glass will tell you what none of your friends will.—Proverb
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When such a spacious mirror's set before him,
He needs must see himself.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
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To hold as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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You have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
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An if my word be sterling yet in England,
Let it command a mirror hither straight,
That it may show me what a face I have.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
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She's adorned
Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,—
The truest mirror that an honest wife
Can see her beauty in.—JOHN TOBIN, The Honeymoon
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The devil's behind the glass.—J. C. WALL, Devils
