Spectacles Quotes

• Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Balance
  • Drugs

• I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Author
  • Seeing
  • Traveler

• He was a small, stringy man of about fifty, with immense horn-rimmed spectacles, a long, sharp nose, and an unusual capacity for garrulous incoherence.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Immense
  • Spectacles
  • Incoherence

• How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Matter
  • Contemplation
  • Human Agony

• Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Use
  • Spectacles
  • Distinctly

• The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

  

  John Hancock
  • Names
  • British
  • Rewards

• Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Gentleman
  • Blind

• Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mass
  • Adapted
  • Human Courage

• The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Experience
  • See
  • Spectacles

• There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

  

  David Myers
  • Reality
  • Attitudes
  • Objective

• Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.

  

  Simon Travaglia
  • View
  • Borrow
  • Spectacles

• I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Enjoy
  • Hunting
  • Spectacles

• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Responsibility
  • Individual
  • Wealth

• At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.

  

  Edmond Francois Valentin About
  • German
  • Wearing
  • Spectacles