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Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people. — Brandon Sanderson

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

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with. — Samuel Johnson

Psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler. No point now we've — J.K. Rowling

The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser. — Don Herold

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace. — Samuel Rutherford

All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles. — Jethro Tull

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop. — Jan De Bont

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too. — John Stuart Mill

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. — Thomas De Quincey

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen

She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. — Kate Chopin

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived. — Pete Sanders

Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses. — Oscar Wilde

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles. — John Donne

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

The nose has been formed to bear spectacles - thus we have spectacles. — Voltaire

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. — Josh Billings

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time. — Mary Jo Putney

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

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

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there. — John Dryden

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

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

Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness - it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present. — Irvin D. Yalom

Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale. This is for grand marketing. — Robert Greene

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

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass. — T. E. Hulme

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

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. — Winston S. Churchill

Women who have succeeded too well at becoming visible have always been penalized vigilantly and forcefully, and turned into spectacles. — Sady Doyle

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. — Simon Travaglia

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. — J.M. Barrie

She wondered whimsically if he wore those spectacles in a vain attempt to keep ladies from fainting at his feet. — Amanda McCabe

He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person. — Jim Butcher

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply. — Joseph Roth

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

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. — Benjamin Franklin

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! — John Hancock

Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. — L. Frank Baum

Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me. — Nancy Mitford

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. — Margaret Deland

I couldn't possibly repeat the words he used .They were so unsettling that I sent Nancy indoors to find my spectacles. — John Bude

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie

See your hard times through the spectacles of your experiences. They, too, shall pass away. — Ogwo David Emenike

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. — John Tyler Bonner