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
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
“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
I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while.… — Gian Lorenzo Bernini Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens 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
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights… — John Lahr 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
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more… — Kate Greenaway 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
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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