(27 quotes found)
“I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.”
Diana Cooper
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
George Santayana
“What a pair of spectacles is here!”
William Shakespeare
“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”
John Wesley Powell
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
Walter Bagehot
“It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.”
Dee Anderson
“Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.”
Ronald Steel
“For us, not having it happen too many times, it's going to be quite a spectacle,”
Dave Anderson
“I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.”
Robert Southey
“I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are”
Harriet Martineau
