“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.” — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on… — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular,… — Edmond Francois Valentin About Copy Share Image
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Eventually, a governess realized I needed spectacles. When I first put them on my face, I can’t even tell you . .… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“She felt a pang of excitement as she realized it was not Mr. Hunt but Matthew Swift. He rose from his chair,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.” — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! — John Hancock Copy Share Image
“It’s just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image