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«Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving»
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
conservative, dew, spectacles, wipe, wipe off
«Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.»
Author: Stephen Fry
| Keywords:
agent, agents, appeared, beards, causing, drained, estate, estate agent, first estate, jangle, jangled, jangling, keys, lances, lancing, landed estate, loathe, nasty, perturbation, purulent, revolting, roam, safely, sores, spectacles, suits, surgically, tint, tinted, tints, vomit, vomited, vomiting, vomit up
«The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time»
«He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ancient, comprehensive, inwards, largest, looked, modern, naturally, needed, poets, Shakespeare, spectacles
«A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cure, pair, paired, spectacles, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
An electric, arrivals, at present, bald, bell, boots, chronically, circular, continuous, creditor, creditors, drill, drilling, electric, electric drill, eleven, frustrated, hangover, hangovers, income tax, interruption, interruptions, in red, losing streak, malnutrition, most recent, needless, pair, post, printed, rattle, recent, recently, ringing, schedule, spectacles, stairs, streak, streaked, streaks, telephone, telephone bell, The Arrival, thirty-five, Thirty two, up the stairs, varicose, veins
«Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
contention, contentions, deaths, democracies, incompatible, personal property, spectacles, turbulence, violent death
«Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
revolutions, spectacles
«What a pair of spectacles is here!»
«Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blinds, dispositions, drudge, drudges, foil, foiled, foils, indolent, keep out, literary, made use of, scenery, shifting, spectacles
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