Augustus Hare Quotes

People only hate what they see in themselves.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

No one ever judges their own self.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.

I've criticized myself over the years.

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

I have a tough time judging myself.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.