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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
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
— Thomas Carlyle
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert
[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
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
The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.
— John Hancock
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
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