Glasses Quotes

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. (Fred Allen)
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. View quote
Virginia Woolf
It's so ironical. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses. View quote
Madhuri Dixit
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. View quote
Irwin Shaw
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar. View quote
Lydia Davis
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down. View quote
Ethel Waters
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. View quote
Sara Paretsky
I can't think without my glasses. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father. View quote
Kim Wilde
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. (Epictetus)
One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. View quote
L. Frank Baum
You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. View quote
Henny Youngman
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze. View quote
Paul Desmond
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly. View quote
John Calvin
The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick. View quote
Jack London
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot. (Ellen DeGeneres)
I like a lot of glasses about -- it highers the tone. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" View quote
Keith Waterhouse
Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight. View quote
Andrea Camilleri
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
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