Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

I like to have glasses for day and night.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.

Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

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.

I can't think without my glasses.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies

It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

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.

I get a lot of compliments about my legs.

I don't feel I can get used to my face wearing glasses... more than one pair of glasses, or any one pair until a cataclysmic, cosmic event causes me to get a new pair.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

I was at a premiere, and these girls blurted out, 'We love your hair!' That made me laugh.

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.