Welcome to Glasses Quotes – a collection of witty, insightful, and humorous quotes dedicated to eyewear enthusiasts and those who appreciate the allure of spectacles. Whether you’ve been donning glasses for years or simply admire the fashionable statement they make, you’re in for a treat. Our curated selection of quotes celebrates the charm and practicality of glasses, exploring the unique perspectives they offer, the confidence they instill, and the stylish flair they bring to one’s persona.
Throughout history, glasses have not only been a tool for improving vision but also a symbol of intellect and sophistication. They have graced the faces of scholars, artists, and visionaries, leaving an indelible mark on culture and fashion. So, if you’re looking for quotes to uplift your eyewear game, inspire your fashion choices, or simply share the joy of spectacles with your friends, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find an array of quotes on the topic of glasses that you can copy, pair with images, or enhance with stylish fonts to personalize and share with the world. Enjoy the journey through the world of eyewear appreciation!
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They’re not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I’ve started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to. Tinie Tempah
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. Tom Ford
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me – I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices. Jon Pertwee
I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it’s like you’re on a roller coaster. Amanda Peet
I was selling stuff probably since I could remember, like 6 or 7 years old. I was always out there helping my mom and dad sell watches, glasses, CDs, DVDs, stuff like that. Whatever we could put our hands on. I did it until I was around 17. But I was just doing it because I had to. There was no other option. Giannis Antetokounmpo
It’s just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I’m in my boxer shorts and shirt. I’m going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it’s really dark in the room. Danny DeVito
I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy. Tina Fey
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. Lesley Garrett
Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. Helena Bonham Carter
I am very short-sighted, and if I don’t like a situation I take my glasses off. Jenny Eclair
I love girls, whether they wear glasses or not! Akira Toriyama
You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet! Margot Robbie
Fashion is very important to me. I dress androgynously – I absolutely despise dresses and skirts and tights – and I started wearing glasses in the third grade. Marley Dias
I never drink while I’m working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. Irwin Shaw
We’ve got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we’re going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world. Astro Teller
I can’t think without my glasses. Vivienne Westwood
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it. Sabine Baring-Gould
I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that – there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was… the angry boss who was bald. Jeffrey Tambor
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look – just like a new hairstyle. Brad Goreski
I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That’s really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn’t like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything. Clay Aiken
The one thing in the world that I can’t do without is my glasses. I don’t really care about my laptop, I never answer my phone, and I don’t care about trainers and stuff. But I’m pretty blind without my glasses or contact lenses. Lucy Bronze
I am the last person on the dance floor at a wedding, I am the person that awkwardly hangs around the edge and says no unless they’ve had a few glasses of wine. Tom Fletcher
I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that. Ryan Eggold
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. Epictetus
Once you have an augmented reality display, you don’t need any other form of display. Your smart phone does not need a screen. You don’t need a tablet. You don’t need a TV. You just take the screen with you on your glasses wherever you go. Tim Sweeney
When you’re 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you’re going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like ‘Parenthood.’ I didn’t feel the need to change anything I was doing – I embraced it. Rick Moranis
I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn’t notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection. Nicole Kidman
Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means using glasses or surgery to correct the eye. But we’ve found that action video games train the brain to process visual information more efficiently and improve vision. Daphne Bavelier
I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be. Bonnie Langford
Sometimes you’ve got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are. Will Muschamp
Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming! Ricky Gervais
The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I’ve never worn before. I’ve worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I’m at practice or at work. Von Miller
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. Sara Paretsky
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. Donnie Yen
After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me. Heather O’Reilly
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw ‘my people’ portrayed accurately. Paul Feig
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Virginia Woolf
If you watch Olivier’s interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. Julian Sands
I’ve earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn. Doris Burke
I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don’t want to change anything too drastically. Roy Orbison
Joshua Kirk, the YouTube kid with the glasses who looks directly into the camera – I really love his album reviews. He’s been doing it for years. Phoebe Bridgers
One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That’s when I said, ‘Okay, enough.’ I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way. Charlamagne tha God
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. William Bligh
I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. C. S. Lewis
No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says ‘Nerd World Order.’ No, geeks are everywhere. And they’re cool! Faith Salie
I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go. Elaine Stritch
At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. Aimee Mullins
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. Henny Youngman
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. Kitty Carlisle
Visually, my trademarks have always been my glasses and hair. Edgar Davids
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I’m cheating myself of whatever it is I’m supposed to learn from my body. You know, I’m legally blind. I’m 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won’t even get LASIK. Carrie Ann Inaba
I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I’ll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day. Paul Lynde
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There’s one in every town. Seanan McGuire
I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women. Joe Shuster
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last. Herbert Spencer
I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go – there were no contact lenses in 1957. Geoffrey Boycott
The Lisa Loeb Eyewear line was created to satisfy all of those people who always stop me and ask me where I get my glasses because they want some just like mine! Lisa Loeb
I’m not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it. Alessandro Michele
We all come to the point where it’s time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It’s tough love but it’s also being real with yourself. It’s important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what’s going on. Kelly Rowland
I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I’m sorry! Anastacia
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car. Nelson Mandela
There’s like ten minutes when it’s like, ‘Okay, wait, who is this guy again?’ And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine. Rainn Wilson
After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across. Eric Liu
When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I’m on stage where I tell one-liners), I tend to do prop comedy. For example, if I’m at the supermarket with my husband, I might put 16 bags of marshmallows in our cart when he’s not looking, or if I’m trying to make a kid smile, I’ll put my glasses on crooked. Wendy Liebman
I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them. Eddie the Eagle
I have numerous clear glasses at home. I probably have thirty pairs. I think it started for acting. I have tons of clothes that just sit there. But if that one role comes up, I’m going to want that shirt. And I have glasses for that, too. Ryan Eggold
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same. Steven Wright
I have a big chin. Thick glasses. Eddie the Eagle
I prefer to drink two glasses of water and then a nice hot cup of tea. My favourite tea is a mixture of Darjeeling tea. My breakfast consists of a glass of fresh orange juice and a slice of toast. Vinod Khanna
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. Jill Clayburgh
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. Ethel Waters
I got, like, 120 pairs of glasses and 800 pairs of sneakers. Von Miller
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air. Cyrano de Bergerac
You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made of water, and yet we lose two to three quarts of it every day through perspiration and other bodily functions. Suzanne Somers
I’m too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses. Victoria Coren Mitchell
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person. Alexander Pope
I pretty much only drink water, Tazo passion tea, or coffee with half and half, and it’s an ongoing joke in the office that I never have less than three glasses of water and some form of tea or coffee in front of me. Ivanka Trump
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. P. J. Harvey
I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away. Stephen Hawking
I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. Jennifer Sky
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I’m from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character. Dan Aykroyd
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses. Joe E. Lewis
Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren’t really crazy because we’re all still here! Noel Redding
I’m blind without my glasses. Adam Ant
What actually happened with ‘Miracle’ was that someone saw me in ‘Jurassic Park’ and said, ‘We want someone with a white beard – how about him?’ I’ve got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat. Richard Attenborough
Most of my childhood is a big blur, ’cause I needed better glasses. Wendy Liebman
I’d been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, ‘Oh God, if this is all I do, I’ll never be able to live with myself.’ Idina Menzel
I lived in a house in Copenhagen that was uber-haunted for many years, with flying teacups and things like that; there was a time when I saw glasses rising off the table, and I took it as a sign of something saying, ‘Hey, we’re with you.’ King Diamond
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I’m always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one’s glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don’t see has become increasingly pronounced. Sloane Crosley
Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses. Aaron Hill
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. Jennifer Sky
I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time. Usher
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look – it’s partly the glasses I wear – and people seem to remember me once they’ve seen me. Todd Solondz
I will say that I do gravitate more towards quirkier guys. I always date guys who wear glasses. Jillian Rose Reed
There are places you go, and they say, ‘Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.’ And you just want to… you just want to… I dunno, um… thump them. Paul Newman
The 3DS is a fantastic machine with more than 1,000 games. Its key differentiator is the 3D immersive experience without need for glasses. But as good as that machine is, you can’t play a game like ‘Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ on it. Reggie Fils-Aime
I have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I’m really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That’s my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can’t – even with surgery. Sarah Alexander
I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know – teachers loved me, straight-A student. Morgan Fairchild
A secret talent or hobby… Hmm… I weirdly collect shot glasses. Austin Mahone
