Behinds Quote by Thomas Carlyle

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair…

— Robert Kennedy

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

— John Calvin

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

— Banana Yoshimoto

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique…

— Thomas Carlyle

For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the…

— Isaac Babel

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