Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! — John Hancock 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
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle 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 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
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“Those early spectacles were called roidi da ogli, meaning “disks for the eyes.” Thanks to their resemblance to lentil beans—lentes in Latin—the… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt 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
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood 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
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think… — Jan de Bont 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
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
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