All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the…

“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”

— Agatha Christie

I was quite a plain boy. I stayed in work and eeked out a living, bit parts on TV, walk-ons in films, repertory companies.

— Nigel Hawthorne

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when…

— Frank O'Hara

Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through…

— James Jeans

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

— Simon Blackburn

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

— John Hancock

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

— John Donne

“Spectacles, on that strong-featured face…and his hair mussed as if he had been tugging absently on the front locks. All that combined with a…

— Lisa Kleypas

“They don’t make spectacles for you, do they?”

— K.J. Charles

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and…

— Robert Southey

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

— Luther Burbank

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

— George Herbert

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

— David Nicholls

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On…

— Andrzej Wajda